Will Depue

Everything Will Depue 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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Depue: Yann LeCun had no involvement with Meta's LLaMA models

“I think it's a shame that they didn't necessarily have someone in the llama org who was as visible as him because he was not involved with llama at all. Like fair fundamental AI research is like a whole other group that they mostly write papers and do very aca…”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:45:13 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

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Depue: RL task specification scales with compute far better than pre-training data

“Because like tokens, you kind of hit diminishing returns pretty quick in terms of just like more internet texts or more like human written math solution examples. And it doesn't scale super well, but the thing, the nice thing about the task specification is yo…”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 3:05:03 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

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Depue: Meta may eventually shift to releasing closed flagship AI models

“I w it wouldn't surprise me if they go kind of the Google route where like they are still, they still do open source. They still have the llama brand, but it isn't like their flagship thing where they start doing, whether it's for internal products or it's, th…”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 3:05:44 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

TBPN Opinion

Depue: Meta has not had a homegrown product innovation stick in a while

“It's been a while since they had a product innovation that was homegrown that really stuck.”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:54:02 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

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Depue: OpenAI holds iPhone-like center of gravity as default AI winner

“I think as long as OpenAI doesn't totally drop the ball on product or research, like, they have the center of gravity for the AI world, like, in the same way that no matter what Android ships, people are not gonna switch from their iPhones, like, It's somethin…”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:55:49 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

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Depue: Cursor and Claude 3.5 Sonnet made AI coding genuinely useful

“And then it took until cursor for it to really like, I think cursor plus like three, five summit was when it became a thing that was good enough that people were excited about it. And it really ushered in the trend because people were starting to find it more …”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 2:59:06 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

TBPN Assertion Supported

Depue: Meta dedicates a huge portion of its GPUs to Instagram recommendations

“Meta has a ton of GPUs. They just use for Instagram ads recommendations.”

Will Depue Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 3:08:31 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill

The other half of the tape: Will Depue's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 5 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Jordi Hays 4John Coogan 1

Every mention by year

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

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
TBPNLEDGER	AI Researcher, OpenAI	1	7	50% 1/2	full record on TBPN →