Podcast

Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard

Apr 29 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:13:50

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

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin

Apr 7 • Dwarkesh Patel

2:03:03

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

1:23:44

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

2:30:44

The most important question nobody's asking about AI

“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”

Mar 11 • Dwarkesh Patel

24:38

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

2:02:19

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

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

Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.

Dec 30, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:49:53

Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up

Dec 19, 2025 • Dwarkesh Patel

1:54:54

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

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