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

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It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 210 9 14 Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations and a blackboard Dwarkesh Patel Apr 29, 2026 210 9 14 Share Transcript 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 b

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