Reproducing OLMo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale
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.
By Dillip Chowdary • Oct 02, 2026 • Source: Google Developers Blog
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Google Developers Blog reports: Reproducing OLMo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale training on TPUs. 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…
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