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Founder, Eureka Labs · Oct 17, 2025 · Interview, Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away

What takes the long amount of time and the way to think about it is that it’s a march of nines.

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Said by
Andrej Karpathy, Founder, Eureka Labs
Where
Dwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away
Topics
Agents, Robotics
Company
Eureka Labs
Source
dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathy

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