MagicAI claims pretraining recipe matches frontier model with 50x less compute, ~$0.5M
EricSteinb · x · 2026-09-09
MagicAI Labs is pushing back on the idea that frontier pretraining is a big-lab-only game: without 100k chips, their answer is algorithmic efficiency.
- Claims its new recipe matches DeepSeek V4 Pro's pretraining using 50x less compute
- Roughly half the FLOPs used for GPT-3
- About $0.5M on GB200 hardware
Caveat: this is a self-reported claim with no independent verification yet.
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