
The MaxText team successfully reproduced AI2’s OLMo 3 7B language model from scratch on Google Cloud TPUs using JAX/XLA, precisely matching the original PyTorch-on-GPU reference across pre-training and mid-training stages on all held-out evaluations. The implementation achieved up to 57.4% Model Flops Utilization (MFU) and demonstrated robust infrastructure portability by surviving mid-run cluster resizes and cross-generation TPU shifts without requiring recipe alterations. Crucially, the exerci
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