diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d07b07434b20..fba4aaf04f09 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,22 @@
 **NVIDIA NeMo**
 ===============
 
+Latest News
+-----------
+
+- 2023/12/06 `New NVIDIA NeMo Framework Features and NVIDIA H200 <https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-nvidia-nemo-framework-features-and-nvidia-h200-supercharge-llm-training-performance-and-versatility/>`_
+
+.. image:: https://github.com/sbhavani/TransformerEngine/blob/main/docs/examples/H200-NeMo-performance.png
+  :target: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-nvidia-nemo-framework-features-and-nvidia-h200-supercharge-llm-training-performance-and-versatility
+  :alt: H200-NeMo-performance
+  :width: 600
+
+NeMo Framework has been updated with state-of-the-art features, 
+such as FSDP, Mixture-of-Experts, and RLHF with TensorRT-LLM to provide speedups up to 4.2x for Llama-2 pre-training on H200. 
+**All of these features will be available in an upcoming release.**
+
+
+
 Introduction
 ------------
 
diff --git a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_base_model.py b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_base_model.py
index 6579e837b1a6..ccdd2e8725db 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_base_model.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/nlp/models/language_modeling/megatron_base_model.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def __init__(self, cfg: DictConfig, trainer: Trainer, no_lm_init=True):
         self.tokenizer = None
 
         with open_dict(cfg):
-            if cfg.get('precision', None) is None and trainer is not None:
+            if cfg.get('precision', None) is None:
                 cfg.precision = trainer.precision
 
         super().__init__(cfg, trainer=trainer, no_lm_init=no_lm_init)
@@ -773,7 +773,6 @@ def build_model_parallel_config(self) -> ModelParallelConfig:
         cfg = OmegaConf.to_container(self.cfg, resolve=True)
 
         # map precision related configs
-        precision = cfg.get('precision', 32)  # PTL trainer precision
         megatron_amp_O2 = cfg.get('megatron_amp_O2', False)
 
         # dtype used in p2p communication
@@ -791,7 +790,7 @@ def build_model_parallel_config(self) -> ModelParallelConfig:
             and not self.cfg.get('sequence_parallel', False),
             "pipeline_dtype": pipeline_dtype,
             "grad_scale_func": self.trainer.precision_plugin.scaler.scale
-            if self.torch_dtype == torch.float16
+            if self.trainer.precision in ["16", "16-mixed"]
             else None,
             "enable_autocast": not megatron_amp_O2 and self.torch_dtype in [torch.bfloat16, torch.float16],
             "autocast_dtype": self.autocast_dtype,
diff --git a/nemo/collections/nlp/parts/utils_funcs.py b/nemo/collections/nlp/parts/utils_funcs.py
index 5185c6cf9b5a..2ec77faf91f5 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/nlp/parts/utils_funcs.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/nlp/parts/utils_funcs.py
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-__all__ = ['list2str', 'tensor2list', 'plot_confusion_matrix', 'get_classification_report']
+__all__ = [
+    'torch_dtype_from_precision',
+    'list2str',
+    'tensor2list',
+    'plot_confusion_matrix',
+    'get_classification_report',
+]
 
 import os
 import time
diff --git a/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_hf_llama_to_nemo.py b/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_hf_llama_to_nemo.py
index d1453aeee972..d6007aa771c0 100644
--- a/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_hf_llama_to_nemo.py
+++ b/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_hf_llama_to_nemo.py
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
   Example to run this conversion script:
     python convert_hf_llama_to_nemo.py \
      --in-file <path_to_hf_checkpoints_folder> \
-     --out-file <path_to_output_nemo_file> \
-     [--fast-swiglu\
+     --out-file <path_to_output_nemo_file>
 """
 
 import os
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@
     NLPSaveRestoreConnector,
     PipelineMixedPrecisionPlugin,
 )
+from nemo.collections.nlp.parts.utils_funcs import torch_dtype_from_precision
 from nemo.utils import logging
 
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def get_args():
         "--in-file", type=str, default=None, required=True, help="Path to Huggingface LLaMA checkpoints",
     )
     parser.add_argument("--out-file", type=str, default=None, required=True, help="Path to output .nemo file.")
-    parser.add_argument("--precision", type=str, default="32", help="Model precision")
+    parser.add_argument("--precision", type=str, default="16", help="Model precision")
     args = parser.parse_args()
     return args
 
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def load_model(cls, checkpoint, strict, **kwargs):
     return model
 
 
-def load_config(args, llama_config):
+def load_config(llama_config):
     nemo_config = OmegaConf.load(
         os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../../examples/nlp/language_modeling/conf/megatron_llama_config.yaml')
     ).model
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def convert(args):
     for name, param in model.named_parameters():
         print(f"- {name}")
 
-    nemo_config = load_config(args, hf_config)
+    nemo_config = load_config(hf_config)
 
     if args.precision in ["32", "16"]:
         precision = int(float(args.precision))
@@ -170,15 +170,6 @@ def convert(args):
         else:
             plugins.append(PipelineMixedPrecisionPlugin(precision=plugin_precision, device='cuda', scaler=scaler))
 
-    if precision == 32:
-        dtype = torch.float32
-    elif precision in [16, "16", "16-mixed"]:
-        dtype = torch.float16
-    elif precision in ["bf16", "bf16-mixed"]:
-        dtype = torch.bfloat16
-    else:
-        dtype = torch.float32  # fallback
-
     nemo_config.precision = precision
     print(f"nemo_config: {nemo_config}")
 
@@ -315,6 +306,7 @@ def convert(args):
     model._save_restore_connector = NLPSaveRestoreConnector()
 
     # cast to target precision and disable cpu init
+    dtype = torch_dtype_from_precision(precision)
     model = model.to(dtype=dtype)
     model.cfg.use_cpu_initialization = False
 
diff --git a/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_mpt_7b_hf_to_nemo.py b/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_mpt_7b_hf_to_nemo.py
index fd761b6b20c2..2261f70ea928 100644
--- a/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_mpt_7b_hf_to_nemo.py
+++ b/scripts/nlp_language_modeling/convert_mpt_7b_hf_to_nemo.py
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@
         'precision': 'bf16',
         'logger': False,  # logger provided by exp_manager
         'enable_checkpointing': False,
-        'replace_sampler_ddp': False,
         'max_epochs': -1,  # PTL default. In practice, max_steps will be reached first.
         'max_steps': 100000,  # consumed_samples = global_step * micro_batch_size * data_parallel_size * accumulate_grad_batches
         'log_every_n_steps': 10,
diff --git a/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_NeMo.ipynb b/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_NeMo.ipynb
index 74cd0f739e84..afda092b8ecc 100644
--- a/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_NeMo.ipynb
+++ b/tutorials/asr/ASR_with_NeMo.ipynb
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
                 "plt.title('Waveform of Audio Example')\n",
                 "plt.ylabel('Amplitude')\n",
                 "\n",
-                "_ = librosa.display.waveshow(audio)"
+                "_ = librosa.display.waveshow(audio, color='blue')"
             ],
             "execution_count": null,
             "outputs": []
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
             },
             "source": [
                 "# Plot the mel spectrogram of our sample\n",
-                "mel_spec = librosa.feature.melspectrogram(audio, sr=sample_rate)\n",
+                "mel_spec = librosa.feature.melspectrogram(y=audio, sr=sample_rate)\n",
                 "mel_spec_db = librosa.power_to_db(mel_spec, ref=np.max)\n",
                 "\n",
                 "librosa.display.specshow(\n",