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Episode: Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI
Description: Podcast: Y Combinator Startup Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AIPub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEver wonder what it actually takes to train a frontier AI model?YC General Partner Ankit Gupta sits down with Nick Joseph, Anthropic's Head of Pre-training, to explore the engineering challenges behind training Claude—from managing thousands of GPUs and debugging cursed bugs to balancing compute between pre-training and RL. We cover...