Dwarkesh Podcast

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"

Apr 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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What I learned this week - Pretraining parallelisms, Can distillation be stopped, Mythos and the cybersecurity equilibrium, Pipeline RL, On…

April 15, 2025

Apr 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin

Apr 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

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March 2026

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”

Mar 20 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute

Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago

Mar 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

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The most important question nobody's asking about AI

“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”

Mar 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."

Mar 6 • Dwarkesh Patel

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February 2026

Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"

"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"

Feb 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Notes on Space GPUs

Turning my Elon prep into a blog post

Feb 5 • Dwarkesh Patel

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Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”

Feb 5 • Dwarkesh Patel

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January 2026

Hiring scouts to help me find guests

$100/hour, fully remote. Ideal candidate is maybe a grad student/post doc/or working in one of: bio, history, econ, math/physics, AI/hardware.

Jan 15 • Dwarkesh Patel

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What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

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