Startup School 2026·
Jeff Dean on why inference hardware is AI's next bottleneck
Jeff Dean· Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
At Y Combinator's Startup School 2026, Jeff Dean argues that as models commoditize the writing of code, the leverage moves down to the systems layer — specialized low-latency inference hardware and the energy cost of moving data — and up to the human skill of taste in choosing what to build.
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