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29 Apr 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
“I think often the number of active parameters could be in the range of a hundred billion, something like that.”
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- Reiner Pope
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- belief
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- 29 Apr 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…This is not well-cited but it’s fine. I think often the number of active parameters could be in the range of a hundred billion, something like that. Maybe a bit larger. So multiply by 20 to get the Chinchilla token count. So Chinchilla, DChinchilla, would be around two trillion. We see we’re about a hundred times larger than that. What does DChinchilla actually mean?…
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