The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
| Author | Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech |
|---|---|
| Published | 2025 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Dwarkesh Patel’s 2025 Stripe Press book that edits his podcast interviews with AI researchers and executives into a themed oral history of the large-language-model scaling years.
Published by Stripe Press in 2025. Patel, with editor Gavin Leech, rearranges excerpts from his interviews into chapters on Scaling, Evals, Internals, Safety, Inputs, Impact, Explosion and Timelines, followed by a conclusion, profiles of the speakers, a glossary and bibliography.
An appendix reprints essays central to the period’s debate: Richard Sutton’s “The Bitter Lesson”, an excerpt from Gwern Branwen’s “The Scaling Hypothesis”, Patel’s own “Will Scaling Work?” and Nostalgebraist’s “On the Broad Success of Transformers”.
What it is: a commercially published, in-print book from a reputable press. This is an ebook conversion (calibre), not a publisher-distributed copy.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
400 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.