The Minutes of Dylan Patel on scale https://minutesof.com/dylan-patel/on/scale/ Everything Dylan Patel has said on scale: 2 verbatim quotes between October 2024 and November 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:02:11 +0000 the number of optics, the network optics in this building is almost as much as all of Azure across all our dat https://minutesof.com/q/bd5d33f5-144f-496a-a32d-4a9ee47cefbf/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd5d33f5-144f-496a-a32d-4a9ee47cefbf/ “the number of optics, the network optics in this building is almost as much as all of Azure across all our data centers two and a half years ago.” — Dwarkesh Patel Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:02:10 +0000 scale Patel predicts OpenAI will have 300,000 to 500,000 GPU equivalent clusters next year across multiple sites. https://minutesof.com/q/5492cf90-3909-4724-b977-ca95780911b3/ https://minutesof.com/q/5492cf90-3909-4724-b977-ca95780911b3/ “Next year, 300 to 500,000 depending on whether it's one side or many. Right? 300 to, like, 700,000, I think, is the upper bound of that.” — Dwarkesh Patel Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:59:36 +0000 scale