Noam Brown on Dwarkesh: AI is outrunning everyone's predictions
Dwarkesh Patel · youtube · 2026-09-18
Noam Brown, the OpenAI researcher behind the o1/o3 reasoning models, joins Dwarkesh Patel's podcast for an episode titled "AI Is Outrunning Everyone's Predictions."
The conversation centers on reasoning models and test-time compute, with Brown arguing that AI capabilities are improving faster than most industry and public forecasts anticipated. As a leading figure of the reasoning-scaling approach, his take on frontier model trajectories and AGI timelines carries real weight.
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