Jared Kaplan on June 16th, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Jared Kaplan started out as a theoretical physicist chasing questions about the universe. Then he helped uncover one of AI’s most surprising truths: that intelligence scales in a predictable, almost physical way. That insight became foundational to the modern era of large language models—and led him to co-found Anthropic. In this talk, he walks through how that discovery reshaped the path to human-level AI, what it means for future models like Claude, and why even the dumbest questions can lead to the biggest breakthroughs. He reflects on…
Tuesday, March 10
