Magic claims >10x more compute-efficient pretraining recipe
Magic says its pretraining recipe matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base using ~50x fewer FLOPs — roughly half of GPT-3's pretraining compute, or ~$0.5M on GB200. Scaling 10x (~$4M) beat all public open base models on perplexity evals.
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