Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
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"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 526 54 51 Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" "That's why I'm sending this message of urgency" Dwarkesh Patel Feb 13, 2026 526 54 51 Share Transcript Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”. In this episode, we discuss what to make of the scaling hypothesis in the current RL regime, how AI will diffuse throughout the economy, whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute given their timelines, how frontier labs will ever make money
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