Diana Hu

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322 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Diana Hu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

So history tends to remix.

What is the, it fits the memory moment right now in 2026 that everyone in this room is still, should be thinking about and designing?

Because I think everyone here is used to waiting for responses on models.

Master of speed.

So you're saying, what if we don't have to wait anymore?

Interesting thought.

Now, what's one assumption that perhaps 6,000 people in this room hold that's already false about AI?

What's a particular task that you have run that has run for weeks?

What did you tell the agents to solve?

That's pretty cool.

Now, one thing that you've been very well known for is you're really good at napkin math.

Sounds funny.

So one of the stories about you is that back in 2013, when speech recognition started to work at Google, you did the napkin math, where if every Google user used their phone and talked to it and used the speech recognition system for just three minutes a day,

you found that the system requires a Google server, you would have to double the fleet, which would be really, really expensive just to do speech translation.

And instead, you basically built a custom ship, and that was the origin story of the TPU.

Which is incredible what the foundation that TPU has become today.

No way you would have predicted that TPU would be so foundational now with transformer architecture, which was invented way later, before you actually invented the TPU.

Incredible napkin math.

So what's a napkins are good.

So actually what's a good napkin math that everyone here wants to be a future founder should run tonight to potentially build something as consequential as the TPU.

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