Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep459-sc See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.
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OUTLINE: (00:00) - Introduction (13:28) - DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 (35:02) - Low cost of training (1:01:19) - DeepSeek compute cluster (1:08:52) - Export controls on GPUs to China (1:19:10) - AGI timeline (1:28:35) - China's manufacturing capacity (1:36:30) - Cold war with China (1:41:00) - TSMC and Taiwan (2:04:38) - Best GPUs for AI (2:19:30) - Why DeepSeek is so cheap (2:32:49) - Espionage (2:41:52) - Censorship (2:54:46) - Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL (3:05:17) - OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1 (3:24:25) - NVIDIA (3:28:53) - GPU smuggling (3:35:30) - DeepSeek training on OpenAI data (3:45:59) - AI megaclusters (4:21:21) - Who wins the race to AGI? (4:31:34) - AI agents (4:40:16) - Programming and AI (4:47:43) - Open source (4:56:55) - Stargate (5:04:24) - Future of AI
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