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The speaker is uncertain how AI compute can sustain 3x year-over-year growth for the next few years and doubts it can grow faster.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“So I don't know how we get even to continue to do 3x compute scaling year over year for the next few years,”
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