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Patel: Manus Is Complementary to US AI Foundation Labs
“Manus seems like in the middle ground here where I wouldn't want to just generally try to harm China by tariffing batteries or cars or something. This is an application of AI and it's complimentary to American AI Foundation Labs because they're using the cloud…”
Dwarkesh Patel Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 10:47 Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
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Patel: No researchers have bypassed transformer quadratic attention scaling
“And while people have found modifications to the transformer, which make the constant time overhead of attention, reduce the constant time overhead on attention to like, you find these little hacks with mixture of experts or latent attention, nobody has gotten…”
Dwarkesh Patel Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 18:05 DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
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Patel: China's Tech Ecosystem Pulled Back After 2021 Crackdowns
“I was in China a few months earlier, and it was really striking to me how dismayed the venture capital system there felt and the tech ecosystem generally, because after the 20, 21 crackdowns, people are just like really pulled back.”
Dwarkesh Patel Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 10:03 Dwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast) on The Scaling Hypothesis, AI and China
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