Jeff Dean

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

But I think when we wrote the paper, we actually saw this was a super important problem because we knew making cheaper, highly capable models from larger scale models was something we desperately wanted to do because we wanted to serve models to more and more people in many different domains like speech or vision.

But sometimes the reviewer maybe didn't have that experience because maybe they're not thinking about large-scale AI services and are thinking about, is this a fundamental advance?

So it gets rejected every so often.

That's fine.

We put it on archive.

People read it.

People use it.

It's all good.

And we do use it in making our Flash models, for example, from our larger-scale

That's partly why our flash models, for example, in Gemini are so capable relative to their size and speed.

Yeah, that's the lesson I would distill from that.

I'm feeling so vigorous and young now.

Yeah, I mean, it's always hard to say.

It's a very personal choice of what it is you want to spend your time on.

To me, some of the most important questions are, are you going to work on something you really care about?

Will your working on that and if you're able to make progress on it with a bunch of colleagues you like working with, if you're able to make collectively solve it or make progress on it, will that make a difference in the world in some positive way, right?

Like will you suddenly be able to do something

and offer that service to, you know, maybe it's a very niche thing, but it will tremendously help biochemists or something.

Or maybe it's a broader thing, it'll help programmers or it will help all consumers on the internet or other things.

what you should strive to do is to have impact in the world that is positive and to work with people you enjoy working with and to work hard and do your best.

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