Continual learning requires going back to update the weights; AIs cannot simply keep building up a larger and larger KV cache as they learn from more users, because that is not scalable and is not how humans learn—humans have no clean separation between parameters and activations, and the brain doesn't expand as we learn.

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

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But this kind of continual learning requires going back to the weights. AIs can't just keep building up a bigger and bigger KV cache as they learn from more and more users. That's just not scalable

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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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