Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

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Released

April 18, 2024

Duration

1h 18m

Channel

Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Zuck on:

• Llama 3
• open sourcing towards AGI
• custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling
• Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more

Enjoy! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒

• Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/mark-zuckerberg
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• Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Mark Zuckerberg

  guest

• Dwarkesh Patel

  host

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Mark Zuckerberg and Dwarkesh Patel, Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters explores mark Zuckerberg bets on open-source AI, colossal compute, and metaverse Mark Zuckerberg discusses Meta’s launch of Llama 3, positioning Meta AI as the most capable freely available assistant and deeply integrating it into Meta’s apps with real‑time web search and powerful image generation.

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