Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

August 1, 2026·57 min·6-min readinterviewtechnology
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Jeff Dean reflects on decades of foundational AI and systems innovations, offering bold predictions about agent-based systems running for weeks, automated scientific discovery loops, and the growing importance of energy efficiency and hardware specialization in inference. He emphasizes th

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Jeff Dean

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Jeff DeanSanjay GhemawatDiana Hu

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Artificial IntelligenceData EngineeringDeep LearningFuture Of WorkLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningSoftware EngineeringTech Industry

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