Approximately 30 to 50 percent of a lab's compute currently goes to inference, and this inference compute is not playing any productive role in helping improve the model, which represents a huge waste.

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Unidentified Speaker — What does the next training paradigm look like? [20p5-kQXF_Q]

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“Around 30 to 50 percent of a lab's compute goes to inference, and that compute is currently not playing any productive role in helping improve the model.”

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What does the next training paradigm look like?— Dwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:40:37 PM

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