MagicaLabs details its pretraining recipe: tens of multiplicative changes, bug fixes as compute multipliers
magicailabs · x · 2026-09-09
MagicaLabs explains its pretraining recipe is the multiplicative result of tens of changes across model architecture, optimizer, training objective, and data — and that fixing minor bugs proved to be a compute multiplier too. More on the research process in their blog.
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