Ankit Gupta

Everything Ankit Gupta said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Gupta: Machine learning progresses by abandoning bio-plausibility for computational efficiency

“I think machine learning tends to have a long history of people starting with bio-plausible arguments, and then realizing that there's some variant of them that seems highly bio-implausible that actually works better.”

Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 14:35 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator

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Gupta: Recursive Latent Hidden States Function Like a Turing Machine Tape

“I kind of think of this set of hidden states or carry as akin to a Turing machine tape or akin to the radix sort, ah, memory bank, where you can basically train a model to use this memory cache in an intelligent way in a single forward pass so that you can get…”

Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 17:03 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator

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Gupta: Chain of Thought Operates in Token Space, Not Model Recursion

“There already exists some type of recursion that people are used to in LLMs, which is a chain of thought we mentioned earlier, but that is a recursion that's happening in the token space of the model's outputs, not inherent to the model itself. That's sort of …”

Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 19:01 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator

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Gupta: Recursive architectures achieve compute depth without parameter depth

“Recursion advantage now gives you a bunch of advantages over transformers where rather than having, you know, 500 or a thousand or a million or whatever transformer layers and having tons and tons of parameters, you get compute depth basically without this par…”

Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 24:32 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator

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Gupta: Current TRMs and HRMs are task-specific, not general-purpose

“One of the things that's really interesting about these TRMs and HRMs is they're not general purpose models, right? These were Task specific models, right? The model trained to do Sudoku cannot do ArcPrize inherently. It has to be trained on the ArcPrize set t…”

Ankit Gupta May 1, 2026 ▶ 36:19 Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator

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Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ankit's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
Y COMBINATORLEDGER	General Partner, Y Combinator	2	5	100% 1/1	full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast →