Dylan Patel on

efficiency

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  1. Patel claims smaller Quen models with 27B total parameters and 2B active outperform GPT-4 from three years ago.

    “If you look back three years, it's GPT-four. Now it's like maybe like quen one of the smaller quen models that's like 27 b parameters total and like 2,000,000,000 active is like way better.”

    2:28 · The AGI Post · 6 Jul 2026 · permalink
  2. Patel argues three years of improvement came from model layer advances plus hardware-software co-design, citing smaller Qwen models outperforming GPT-4.

    “If you look back three years, it's GPT-four. Now it's maybe like quen, one of the smaller quen models that's like 27B parameters total and 2,000,000,000 active is way better.”

    24:47 · Sequoia Capital · 30 Jun 2026 · permalink
  3. Patel argues co-optimizing hardware, software, and models produces 100x gains instead of 8x from multiplicative 2x improvements per layer.

    “The real breakthrough innovation is when you leapfrog a few layers, you co optimize and co design them, and now all of a sudden you've taken what could have been a 2x here, 2x here, 2x here, and instead of being multiplicative to 8x, it's actually 100x, because you've optimized it across all three layers.”

    28:20 · Sequoia Capital · 30 Jun 2026 · permalink

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