Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

Did a very different format with Reiner Pope - a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served. It’s shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations, public API prices, and some chalk. It’s a bit technical, but I encourage you to hang in there – it’s really worth it. There are less than a handful of people in the world who understand the full stack of AI, from chip design to model architecture, as well as Reiner. It was a real delight to learn from him. Wrote up some flashcards and practice problems to help myself retain what Reiner taught. Hope it’s helpful to you too! Reiner is CEO of MatX , a new chip startup (full disclosure - I’m an angel investor). He was previously at Google, where he worked on…