Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

April 29, 20262 hr 13 min

Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served. It’s shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations, public API prices, and some chalk. It’s a bit technical, but I encourage you to hang in there – it’s really worth it. There are less than a handful of people who understand the full stack of AI, from chip design to model architecture, as well as Reiner. It was a real d...

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