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  1. Sequoia Capital51 min

    Founder Eric Steinberger on Magic’s Counterintuitive Approach to Pursuing AGI

    Eric Steinberger, Sonya Huang, Noam Brown, Sonia

    Former DeepMind collaborator Eric Steinberger founded Magic to develop vertically integrated AI software engineers capable of achieving general-domain, long-horizon reliability through increased inference-time compute. Challenging the industry's reliance on standard benchmarks, the company recently open-sourced a "hashless eval" methodology that forces models to process entire context windows rather than exploiting retrieval heuristics. Steinberger's strategy prioritizes a lean, high-velocity research team focused on proprietary model training to build "colleague-tier" agents that automate complex software tasks with over 99% reliability.