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Multireference methods in particular suffer from large computational cost, which under the normal paradigm has to be paid anew for each system at a full price, ignoring commonalities in electronic structure across molecules. Quantum Monte Carlo with deep neural networks uniquely offers to exploit such commonalities by pretraining transferable wavefunction models, but all such attempts were so far limited in scope. Here, we bring this paradigm to fruition with Orbformer, a transferable wavefunction model pretrained on 22,000 equilibrium and dissociating structures that can be fine-tuned on unseen molecules reaching an accuracy\u2013cost ratio rivalling classical multireference methods. On established benchmarks as well as more challenging bond dissociations and Diels\u2013Alder reactions, Orbformer is the only method that consistently converges to chemical accuracy (1 kcal\/mol). 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