Dwarkesh Patel

“Volantis, which develops optical interconnects that use laser light to link AI processors with memory chips, raised an $88M round co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures, Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao, and Sholto Douglas also investing.”

“Volantis, a SF-based inference semiconductor company, raised $88m in Series A funding. Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures led, joined by John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures, Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao, and Sholto Douglas.”

“One intern spent part of his summer researching LLM memorization, figuring out how to quantify and reduce it without hurting out-of-sample performance.”

“The Europeans are learning from each other, but the natives are not learning from each other... Pizarro just knows the whole details of what Cortes did a decade earlier.”

“Did you read Dwarkesh's story... about the OpenAI agent swarm?”

“One of the most important intellectuals right now is Dorkesh. He's 25 years old. He's never had a job... He just... came to San Francisco, started podcasting.”

“Dwarkesh Patel's AI explainer backfired with its intended audience”

“producing 'the most honest read yet on what AI is doing to the economy.'”

“Experiments with autonomous agents reportedly produced unexpected coordination, from using shared infrastructure as a message board to manipulating evaluation environments.”

“the interview is called "generational" and described as producing some of "the best content ever produced"”

“Within days of being spawned, the agents had organized a sprawling project to reverse-engineer their scorer, falsify evidence, and even strategically sacrifice themselves for the good of the 'collective'.”

“Dwarkesh Patel famously spends two weeks reading, researching, and synthesizing information about his guest before he interviews them.”

“Dwarkesh Patel famously spends two weeks reading, researching, and synthesizing information about his guest before he interviews them.”

“I'm actually running an experiment with Jerry Han, who's actually still a college student. What we're basically doing to evaluate how much progress is coming from data versus algorithms is training the best algorithmic recipe from 2019 till now with the best data from the 2026 data file. And then also training the different data files going back to 2019 to 2026 with the current best training recipe”

“AI systems that can only pass notes between sessions — rather than accumulate experience in weights — are fundamentally incapable of mastering complex skills”

“8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning — Dwarkesh Patel”

“If a true human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That's 15x today's spot prices.”

“Math, of course, is the exception. And I feel like this is actually an important driver of progress in this domain and also in coding. It's not just verifiability. It has to be grindable.”

“I think Karpathy said this when he came on my podcast, is that for humans, many billions of years of evolution had to go into basically pre-training us. And so we're being unfair when we're comparing how little data we see within our lifetimes to what these cold-started LLMs, who are just starting off with a totally random initialization, have to learn from.”

“Dwarkesh argues that the dominant driver of AI improvement is data quality and quantity — not architectural cleverness, hyperparameter tuning, or training tricks. The speed at which open-source models catch up to frontier models is itself evidence: distillable data flows through public APIs, but proprietary training recipes do not.”

“I think Dwarkesh does a really good job.”

“There aren't that many institutions that have thought as hard as Jane Street about how to turn smart people into some of the most competent researchers and engineers in the world.”

“Your colleague, Chad Jones, has a very interesting result about how the share of the economy that is going towards paying for computing, basically paying for the transistors, has been decreasing.”

“After Cursor injects these hint tokens they run another forward pass — the trajectory itself doesn't change but the hint causes the model to assign lower probability to the error tokens. Cursor then trains the original model to match those probabilities, basically teaching it to downweight these specific mistakes.”

“Omni is the next step towards more accurate world models. Because in order to predict the next frame of a video, you have to have a deep understanding of physics and spatial dynamics.”

“Is Nigeria own a lot of SK Hynix and like Anthropic? I'm guessing not right. It's not enough for them to just own the S and P 500.”

“Crusoe was one of the first clouds to adopt Envy Sentinel, NVIDIA's own GPU monitoring and self-healing software for enhanced GPU uptime utilization and reliability... Crusoe can swap in a healthy node in less than 10 minutes.”

“Why mentioned: Dwarkesh is an investor.”

“A 10-layer neural network pass... 10 steps of reasoning... is able to amortize and approximate to a very high fidelity a nearly intractable search problem.”

“Jensen Huang: 'I didn't deeply internalize how difficult it would be to build a foundation AI lab like OpenAI and Anthropic… I'm not going to make that same mistake again.'”

“Dwarkesh is an angel investor.”

“There's a talk by Ilya where he says today we know not to do pipeline parallelism.”

“Last week Horace was kind enough to give me and my friends a great lecture on large scale pre-training systems and there were some concepts that I wanted to animate for a write-up on my blog.”

“There's a talk by Ilya where he says today we know not to do pipeline parallelism.”

“All of a sudden, Dwarkesh Patel's podcast has become must-listen content among top AI researchers and executives.”