Archive - Dwarkesh Podcast

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

Aug 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner

Continual learning is a huge bottleneck

Jun 2, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

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

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

Feb 13 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:22:19

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

Oct 17, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:25:19

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

1:43:12

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

2:49:45

Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

Nov 25, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:36:03

Dec 27, 2024 • Dwarkesh Patel

What fully automated firms will look like

Everyone is sleeping on the *collective* advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ: they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled…

Jan 31, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years

If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over…

Jul 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

The trillion dollar cluster...

Jun 4, 2024 • Dwarkesh Patel

4:31:17

Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI

Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world

Nov 12, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:27:47

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