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- Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moatApr 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it"
- Michael Nielsen – How science actually progressesApr 07, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
The true story of Einstein, Newton, and Darwin
- Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discoveryMar 20, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”
- Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI computeMar 13, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Plus, why an H100 is worth more today than 3 years ago
- The most important question nobody's asking about AIMar 11, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
- Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada PalmerMar 06, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
- Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"Feb 13, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
- Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”Feb 05, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
“Those who live in software land are about to have a hard lesson in hardware.”
- Hiring scouts to help me find guestsJan 15, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
$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.
- What I've been reading recently - Jan 10, 2026Jan 10, 2026Dwarkesh Patel
Nonlinear dynamics and Chaos, Machines of Loving Grace, Max Hodak’s theory of consciousness, Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
- Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brainDec 30, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
The brain's secret sauce is its reward functions, not its architecture.
- Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)Dec 23, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
- Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold WarDec 19, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
Oil crisis, Sino-Soviet split, ethnic rebellions, and arms build-up
- Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)Dec 02, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term
- Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of researchNov 25, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
- RL is even more information inefficient than you thoughtNov 17, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
And implications for RLVR progress
- Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGINov 12, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
Plus a tour of Fairwater 2, the most powerful AI datacenter in the world
- Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's riseOct 31, 2025Dwarkesh Patel
Plus, where Russia and China go from here