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Tan: Scaling laws revealed the path to AGI for OpenAI's leaders
“If you were Greg Brockman or Dario Amadei, ah, at that moment, you started, you know, internally you were talking about the scaling laws, and that the loss function was going down as log linear to the amount of, ah, data and compute you were putting in, and th…”
Garry Tan Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 4:55 #2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
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Tan: OpenAI Was Spun Out of YC Research by Sam Altman
“OpenAI itself was a spin-out from YC research by, ah, Sam Altman.”
Garry Tan Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 5:20 #2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
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Tan: Cruise co-founder Daniel Kan is in current Y Combinator batch
“Daniel Kahn, for instance, who created, co, co-founder of Cruise Automation, he's in the batch, and I'm pretty excited about it”
Garry Tan Oct 17, 2025 ▶ 46:06 #2281 Garry Tan: Y Combinator Startups Growing 5X Faster – Here’s What Changed
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