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29 Apr 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
“I think we just have to make some real-world assumptions here in order to do 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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…Right. Can we back out how much more compute than Chinchilla optimal for a given sized model? I think we just have to make some real-world assumptions here in order to do that. The inference tokens, we should totally be able to count, right? Let’s say a few hundred million. Maybe it’s five hundred million tokens a second now, I don’t really know. Five hundred million tokens a second times. A model is deployed for two months before it becomes obsolete? I can’t do this in my head. Can you type it into a computer? 2.6 x 1015.…
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