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EPISODES 24LATEST SEP 17, 2026HOST DWARKESH PATEL, NOAM BROWN
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SEP 17, 2026
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
DWARKESH PATEL, NOAM BROWN
SEP 11, 2026
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
BARON MILLICH, CHARLIE O'NEILL, JOHN SCHULMAN, RON MINSKY, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 04
SEP 1, 2026
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
AJEYA COTRA, DWARKESH PATEL, JANE STREET INTERN
AUG 31, 2026
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
DWARKESH PATEL, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 00, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 02, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 03, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 04, UNKNOWN SPEAKER 06
AUG 25, 2026
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
DWARKESH PATEL, DYLAN PATEL, JANE STREET EMPLOYEE, JANE STREET INTERN
AUG 11, 2026
Ryan Greenblatt – Human level AIs might build runaway superintelligences by 2032
DWARKESH PATEL, RYAN GREENBLATT
AUG 7, 2026
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
DWARKESH PATEL
AUG 3, 2026
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
DWARKESH PATEL
JUL 10, 2026
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
ADAM BROWN, DWARKESH PATEL, JED THOMPSON
JUN 30, 2026
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
DWARKESH PATEL, GRANT SANDERSON
JUN 26, 2026
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
DARIO AMODEI, DWARKESH PATEL
JUN 19, 2026
The data black hole at the center of AI
DWARKESH PATEL
JUN 16, 2026
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
ADA PALMER, DWARKESH PATEL, RICKSON, UNIDENTIFIED
JUN 4, 2026
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
ALEX IMAS, DWARKESH PATEL, PHIL TRAMMELL
MAY 22, 2026
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
DWARKESH PATEL, REINER POPE
MAY 15, 2026
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
DWARKESH PATEL, ERIC JANG
APR 29, 2026
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
AXEL (JANE STREET ENGINEER), CLARK (JANE STREET ENGINEER), DWARKESH PATEL, REINER POPE, UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT
APR 15, 2026
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
DWARKESH PATEL, JANE STREET AD VOICE, JENSEN HUANG, UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT
APR 7, 2026
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
DWARKESH PATEL, MICHAEL NIELSEN, UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT
MAR 20, 2026
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
DWARKESH PATEL, TERENCE TAO
MAR 13, 2026
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
DWARKESH PATEL, DYLAN PATEL, PRODUCER
NOV 25, 2025
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
DWARKESH PATEL, ILYA SUTSKEVER
NOV 12, 2025
Satya Nadella – How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
SCOTT GUTHRIE, DWARKESH PATEL, SATYA NADELLA, DWARKESH PATEL
OCT 17, 2025
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”