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The speaker thinks labs should allocate most of their compute and spending to stages other than pre-training.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“And it just turns out that pre-training is not where you want to put most of your flops or your cost.”Play from 1:03:22Report a misattribution
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