Baker: Approximating a human brain requires the power of 1M homes
Gavin Baker · Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback · Aug 13, 2026 · at 54:20
Gavin Baker of Atreides Management illustrates the thermodynamic energy efficiency gap between the human brain and AI data centers.
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“To approximate our brains, you need to have a data center that consumes the power of a million American homes running For probably six to nine months, and then you get our brains, and then every time you want to answer a question, you need the power of like a thousand American homes, ok, to operate at the level of our minds”
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