scaling laws
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Why I Couldn’t Build Jev at OpenAI: Diogo Almeida on TypeSafe, System One Models, RLCD, and Making AI Programmable
Diogo Almeida spent years inside OpenAI arguing that the entire field was optimizing the wrong thing, and then left to prove it. In this long interview recorded days…
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Sam Altman on How to Start a Startup in the AI Era: Exponentials, Chaos, Compute Bottlenecks, and the Fight Against AI Authoritarianism
More than a decade after his famous Stanford lectures on how to start a startup, Sam Altman sits down for a wide-ranging conversation about what has changed. His…
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SubQ 1.1 Small Explained: How Subquadratic Sparse Attention Hits 98% Retrieval at 12 Million Tokens With 64.5x Less Compute Than Dense Attention
Subquadratic, a frontier AI research and infrastructure company, has released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context language model built on a new…
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Inside Anthropic, the $965 Billion AI Juggernaut: Dario and Daniela Amodei on Claude, Claude Code, and the AI Arms Race
In this episode of The Circuit, Bloomberg goes inside Anthropic, the AI lab that started as an underdog and is now valued at nearly a trillion dollars. The…
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Jensen Huang at Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems on Co-Design, Agentic Computing, Vera Rubin, Open Models, and the Million-X Decade That Reshaped AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang returned to Stanford for the CS153 Frontier Systems class (the room nicknamed itself “AI Coachella”) to lay out, in raw form, how he thinks…
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Krishna Rao on Anthropic Going From 9 Billion to 30 Billion ARR in One Quarter and the Compute Strategy Powering Claude
Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Officer of Anthropic, sat down with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on Invest Like the Best for one of the most detailed public looks yet at the…
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Elad Gil on the AI Frontier: Compute Constraints, the Personal IPO, and Why Most AI Founders Should Sell in the Next 12 to 18 Months
Elad Gil sat down with Tim Ferriss for a wide ranging conversation that pairs almost perfectly with his recent Substack post Random thoughts while gazing at the misty…
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Dario Amodei on the AGI Exponential: Anthropic’s High-Stakes Financial Model and the Future of Intelligence
TL;DW (Too Long; Didn’t Watch) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Dwarkesh Patel for a high-stakes deep dive into the endgame of the AI exponential. Amodei predicts that by…
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Andrej Karpathy on the Decade of AI Agents: Insights from His Dwarkesh Podcast Interview
TL;DR Andrej Karpathy’s reflections on artificial intelligence trace the quiet, inevitable evolution of deep learning systems into general-purpose intelligence. He emphasizes that the current breakthroughs are not sudden…
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Dwarkesh Patel: From Podcasting Prodigy to AI Chronicler with The Scaling Era
TLDW (Too Long; Didn’t Watch) Dwarkesh Patel, a 24-year-old podcasting sensation, has made waves with his deep, unapologetically intellectual interviews on science, history, and technology. In a recent…
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The AI Revolution Unveiled: Jonathan Ross on Groq, NVIDIA, and the Future of Inference
TL;DR Jonathan Ross, Groq’s CEO, predicts inference will eclipse training in AI’s future, with Groq’s Language Processing Units (LPUs) outpacing NVIDIA’s GPUs in cost and efficiency. He envisions…