Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Patel
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
11 minutes Posted Aug 3, 2026 at 5:32 pm.
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This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. If you want to read the original you can check it out here.

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