Dwarkesh Patel announces a $20,000 blog prize for essays on fundamental AI research questions, offering $10k/$6k/$4k for top three entries. Topics include RL scaling limits, AI training dynamics, compute requirements, US-China competition, and AI governance. The prize serves as talent acquisition—Patel intends to hire a research collaborator. Deadline: May 10th.
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Blog prize for big questions about AI
Dwarkesh Patel's $20k blog prize on AI research fundamentals—RL scaling, training dynamics, compute, US-China competition, governance—is a talent recruitment play to hire a research collaborator by May 10.
Friday, April 24, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Dwarkesh PodcastBY sys://pipeline
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