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Chinchilla scaling law

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What experts have said about Chinchilla scaling law

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  1. Dwarkesh PatelNegativeJun 19, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Under Chinchilla scaling, unlimited parameters reduce required data by only roughly tenfold at fixed loss.

    Even if you increase the number of parameters by infinity, that would only decrease by a factor of 10 the amount of data that you need in order to keep the same loss.

    Listen at 7:14

    Open the episode · The data black hole at the center of AI
  2. Reiner PopeMixedApr 29, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    The discussed frontier model may be trained on roughly 100 times Chinchilla-optimal tokens.

    the amount it's overtrained, which is like a factor of 100 overtrained

    Listen at 1:32:19

    Open the episode · Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served

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