Jared Kaplan
person on 8 shows · 7 statements across 3 episodes · said 28 times in 19 episodes since 2023
Big Technology 11 
Latent Space 10 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
No Priors 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
TBPN 1 
20VC 1
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
- OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
- The Early Days of Anthropic & How 21 of 22 VCs Rejected It | The Four Bottlenecks in AI | Anj Midha · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 16 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- Are We at the End of Ai Progress? — With Gary Marcus
- Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
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2024 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
- Anthropic's Co-Founder on AI Agents, General Intelligence, and Sentience — With Jack Clark
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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7 statements about Jared Kaplan, every show
Krieger: Scaling laws describe what is possible, not what is predetermined
“The scaling laws, I think, paint a picture of what is possible, but is not predetermined. Like, to actually get there, there's a lot of, actually, really difficult, both machine learning and engineering work”
Kaplan: Training frontier AI requires only next-word prediction and reinforcement learning
“So really all there is to training these models is learning to predict the next word and then doing reinforcement learning to learn to do useful tasks.”
Kaplan: Broken scaling laws usually signal flawed training setups, not fundamental limits
“If scaling laws are failing, it's because we've screwed up AI training in some way. Maybe we got, ah, we got the architecture of the neural network wrong, or there's some bottleneck in training that we don't see, or there's some problem with Precision and the …”
Kaplan: AI training and inference will see 3x-10x yearly efficiency gains
“I think that over time, as AI becomes more and more widespread, I think that we're going to really drive down the cost of inference and training dramatically from where we are right now. Sort of, three X to 10 X gains algorithmically, and in sort of scaling up…”
Kaplan: Most AI value will come from end-to-end frontier models
“I think that you can do a lot of very simple bite-sized tasks, but I think it's just much more convenient to be able to use an AI model that can do a very complex task end-to-end, rather than requiring us as humans to sort of orchestrate a much dumber model to…”
Kaplan: Modest self-correction capabilities can double autonomous AI task horizons
“A lot of what determines the horizon length of what models can accomplish is their ability to notice that they're doing something wrong and correct it. And I think that's not sort of like a lot of bits of information. It doesn't necessarily require a huge chan…”
Anthropic Stopped Chatbot Investment to Focus on Coding and Complex Tasks
“Anthropic stopped investing in chatbots at the end of the year and has instead focused on improving Claude's ability To do complex tasks like research and coding, even writing whole code bases, according to Jared Kaplan, Anthropics Chief Science Officer.”