Magic claims new recipe matches DeepSeek V4 Pro pretraining with 50x less compute (~$0.5M)
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-09
- Magic (@magicailabs) pushed back on the idea that frontier pretraining is a big-lab-only game: without 100k chips, algorithmic efficiency is the only path.
- It claims its new recipe matches DeepSeek V4 Pro's pretrain using 50x less compute — roughly half the FLOPs used for GPT-3, or $0.5M on GB200.
- Caveat: company self-reported claim, no third-party verification yet.
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