Dwarkesh Patel

Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)

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

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

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

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

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

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

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

Notes on Space GPUs

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

Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution