compute

9 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Aug 24, 2023 by Jakob Uszkoreit · across every show →

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Aug 24, 2023 negative
Insight
Uszkoreit: LLM compute scales with token length, not problem difficulty
“Then ultimately, the way you scale that compute depends on the prompt and how much, how long that is. The longer the prompt, the more compute you get. And it depends on, and there's of course many different screws to tweak here, the length of the response. The…”
Jakob Uszkoreit Aug 24, 2023 ▶ 8:34 No Priors Ep. 29 | With Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit
Nov 2, 2023 negative
Insight
Sutskever: A nonprofit cannot build large compute clusters for frontier AI
“The appetite for compute is truly endless as now clearly seen, but we realized that we will need a lot. And a nonprofit was, wouldn't be the way to get there. Wouldn't be able to build a large cluster with a nonprofit.”
Ilya Sutskever Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 8:27 No Priors Ep. 39 | With OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
Nov 9, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Mensch: Chinchilla scaling yields models four times cheaper to serve
“For the same amount of compute, you would get a model that would be better, but also a model that will be four times cheaper to serve.”
Arthur Mensch Nov 9, 2023 ▶ 5:27 No Priors Ep. 40 | With Arthur Mensch, CEO Mistral AI
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Albrecht: A significant fraction of Imbue's $200M funding round will fund compute
“I mean, I think actually a significant fraction of that is going to go to compute.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 24:53 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Nov 16, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Albrecht: Imbue has sufficient compute to train state-of-the-art sized AI models
“We have enough compute to be able to train models that are as large as the largest models have been trained today to date.”
Josh Albrecht Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 27:03 No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
Jun 6, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ma: AI Is Running Out of Compute and Training Data
“My vision is that in the future the efficiency is very important because we are running out of data and compute. So we have to either use the data much better and use the compute much better.”
Tengyu Ma Jun 6, 2024 ▶ 1:23 No Priors Ep. 67 | With Voyage AI Co-Founder and CEO
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Insight
Mitchell: LLMs allocate compute efficiently by deferring tasks to specialized tools
“I think, like, part of this is you can just allocate compute a lot more efficiently because you can defer stuff that the model doesn't have comparative advantage to doing to a tool that is, like, really well suited to doing that thing.”
Eric Mitchell Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 12:28 No Priors Ep. 138 | The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
May 1, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Srivastava: Global Compute Supply Will Fall Short of LLM Demand for Decade
“I think, like, there's no world in which there's enough compute to, you know, get the amount of value that we want to get out of our limbs in the next five to 10 years.”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 33:36 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
Aug 6, 2026 neutral
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Gil: AI labs are slowing researcher hiring due to compute costs
“I know some labs have slowed down on their hiring of researchers unless they're above a very, very high bar because the cost isn't the research or it's the compute associated with the person.”
Elad Gil Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 22:46 Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
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