Episode
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Dwarkesh Podcast · Apr 29, 2026 · 2 h 14 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…