Magic Matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base Using 50x Less Compute

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Magic claims a pretraining recipe that matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base with roughly 50x fewer FLOPs, hitting frontier quality for around $0.5M on GB200.

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2026-09-08 16:09 · AlphaSignal
Magic Matches DeepSeek V4 Pro Base Using 50x Less Compute

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