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The speaker says that even without recursive self-improvement, the effective population of frontier AI at a given capability level is currently growing 10× year over year.
Dwarkesh Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026
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“this is even true if there's no RSI.”
“The current effective,”
“like, effective population of the frontier is currently increasing 10x year over year for a given level of capabilities,”Play from 1:10:20Report a misattribution
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