# numbat

~14T param, 114 layers, hybrid GDN/MLA, MoE (1,224 experts, top-48 + 1
shared), NVFP4. Internal codename `numbat`, Anthropic's next Mythos-class
training run. `numbat` is the codename referenced in the Claude Code
source leak (Mar 2026). This is a checkpoint from that training run,
pulled mid-pretraining.

**Files:**

| File | Contents |
|---|---|
| `config.json` | model configuration |
| `configuration_numbat.py` | `NumbatConfig` |
| `modeling_numbat.py` | `NumbatForCausalLM` reference implementation |
| `tokenizer.json` | byte-level BPE, 131,072 tokens |
| `model.safetensors.index.json` | tensor index across all 772 shards |
| `model-00001-of-00772.safetensors` | shard 1 of 772 |
| `ckpt_metadata.json` | checkpoint metadata (ckpt path, eval harness output) |
| `training_log_tail.txt` | last ~400 steps of training log |

The 772 shards total ~7.72 TB of tensor data. Each
shard is safetensors format, under 10.6 GB per file.

`configuration_numbat.py` and `modeling_numbat.py` are included: a
complete reference implementation of the checkpoint. Its module tree
has an exact slot for every tensor in every shard, so the full
checkpoint loads with `load_state_dict(strict=True)` (and, since the
classes derive from `PreTrainedModel`, also via
`AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(..., trust_remote_code=True)`).
`NumbatForCausalLM.forward` runs the trunk and
`NumbatForCausalLM.draft` runs the MTP layer.

```
$ python -c "from safetensors import safe_open; f = safe_open('model-00001-of-00772.safetensors', framework='pt'); print(len(f.keys()))"
142
```

**Verification:**

```
$ cat model.safetensors.index.json | python -c "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d['metadata']['total_size'])"
7720300817720
```

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*Mirrors welcome. Do not DM me asking for the source.*

## Why believe this?

- `numbat` was confirmed as a codename for an unreleased Anthropic model
  in the Claude Code source leak (March 2026), found in a comment in
  `prompts.ts`: *"Remove this section when we launch numbat."*
- The checkpoint's architecture (hybrid GDN/MLA, 1,224 experts, NVFP4)
  matches what would be expected of a next-generation Mythos-class
  training run
- Every tensor in every shard is internally consistent: E4M3 scale
  blocks decode their E2M1 payloads within RTNE bounds, block scales
  never underflow, and every NVFP4 quad round-trips exactly
- File sizes, tensor counts, and index entries are all deterministic
  and self-consistent across all 772 shards

## Loader

The architecture is a hybrid Gated DeltaNet (GDN) + Multi-head Latent
Attention (MLA) stack with Mixture-of-Experts feed-forward layers and
Multi-Token Prediction. A working single-device reference implementation
is included (`modeling_numbat.py`); the eval runs used the internal
Neuron-parallel runtime, but this port consumes the same tensors and
round-trips every shard.

## FAQ

**Q: How did you get this?**
A: Can't say more than what's already in the repo.

**Q: When will more shards be uploaded?**
A: They're all uploading. Be patient.

**Q: Can I use this for inference?**
A: Yes — `modeling_numbat.py` implements the full architecture. Load
the tensors and run. But this is a pretraining checkpoint at step
1,830,000 of a ~1.96M step run. No post-training, no RLHF. Raw
pretraining-completion output. That's expected.

**Q: Why is a mid-pretraining checkpoint in NVFP4?**
A: The eval team quantizes every async checkpoint to NVFP4 so evals run
on a slice of Trainium2s instead of the full training cluster — still
~85 of them just to hold these weights. The raw
BF16 training weights plus optimizer state never leave the cluster.
This is the eval copy.

**Q: Is this real?**
A: Yes.