diff --git a/nvshmem_train_gpt2.cu b/nvshmem_train_gpt2.cu
index 816c8ca..4ed33a3 100644
--- a/nvshmem_train_gpt2.cu
+++ b/nvshmem_train_gpt2.cu
@@ -1216,7 +1216,6 @@ typedef struct {
 } GPT2;
 
 void gpt2_build_from_checkpoint(GPT2 *model, const char *checkpoint_path) {
-   printf("oioioioioi_anand\n");
   // read in model from a checkpoint file
   FILE *model_file = fopenCheck(checkpoint_path, "rb");
   int model_header[256];