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id: "1950227846518984718"
user: "ycombinator"
name: "Y Combinator"
status: ok
url: "https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1950195148002120092"
---

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan on scaling and the road to human-level AI.

At AI Startup School in San Francisco.

00:17 - From Physics to AI
01:41 - Initial Skepticism and Shift to AI
02:12 - AI Training Phases
02:32 - Pre-Training
03:16 - Reinforcement Learning
04:19 - Scaling Laws in Training
08:19 - Unlocking AI Capabilities
11:27 - Organizational Knowledge and Memory
12:19 - Oversight and Nuanced Tasks
13:38 - Preparing for the Future
15:48 - Claude 4 and Beyond
21:18 - Human-AI Collaboration
29:50 - Scaling Laws and Compute Efficiency
35:26 - Audience Q&A