Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel

Summary

Dwarkesh Podcast is hosted by Dwarkesh Patel covering Reinforcement Learning (RL), Geopolitics, AI Agents, and Semiconductors. Notable guests include Reiner Pope (CEO, Maddx), Eric Jang (Vice President of AI, 1X Technologies), David Reich (Professor of Ancient DNA, Harvard), and Ken Rogoff (Professor, Harvard University & Former Chief Economist, IMF). Episodes span from Feb 2025 to May 2026.

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32 episodes

Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope

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May 22, 2026 · WITH Reiner Pope

The episode provides a foundational explanation of AI chip design, starting from basic logic gates (AND, full adders) and building up to the multiply-accumulate operations that form the core of mat...

AI AcceleratorsChip DesignSemiconductorsGPU Architecture+16 more

Building AlphaGo from scratch – Eric Jang

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May 15, 2026 · WITH Eric Jang

The cost to build a superhuman Go AI has plummeted from millions of dollars (DeepMind's AlphaGo) to a few thousand, thanks to open-source projects like Katago and modern development tools. AlphaGo'...

Reinforcement Learning (RL)AlphaGoGo (game)Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)+15 more

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

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May 8, 2026 · WITH David Reich

A new large-scale ancient DNA study reveals that natural selection in European and Middle Eastern populations has significantly accelerated over the last 10,000 years, particularly since the Bronze...

Ancient DNAHuman EvolutionNatural SelectionPopulation Genetics+11 more

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

Apr 29, 2026

Jensen Huang's Most Revealing Interview Ever — Full Breakdown (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Apr 16, 2026

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

Apr 15, 2026

Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us

Apr 7, 2026

Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI

Mar 20, 2026

Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute

Mar 13, 2026

The most important question nobody's asking about AI.

Mar 11, 2026

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

Mar 6, 2026

Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

Feb 25, 2026

Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”

Feb 13, 2026

What are we scaling?

Dec 23, 2025

Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War

Dec 19, 2025

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

Nov 25, 2025

Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI

Nov 12, 2025

Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

Oct 31, 2025

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Oct 17, 2025

“I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane

Oct 10, 2025

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Sep 26, 2025

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Sep 12, 2025

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Aug 15, 2025

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

Aug 7, 2025

Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber

Jun 19, 2025

"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff

Jun 12, 2025

Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

May 29, 2025

Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

May 22, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months

Apr 29, 2025

AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Apr 17, 2025

AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

Apr 3, 2025

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Feb 19, 2025

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