--- --- Jul 14, 2026 # Dwarkesh Patel Dwarkesh Podcast by [Tharin Pillay](https://time.com/author/tharin-pillay/) ## Tharin Pillay Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME.  Aaron Wojack—The New York Times/Redux Through deeply researched podcasts, essays, and lectures, [Dwarkesh Patel](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012877/dwarkesh-patel/) is chronicling the arc of AI as he interrogates it. On the _Dwarkesh Podcast_—which averages over 1.8 million listens an episode—he presses both technical pioneers like [Andrej Karpathy](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2024/7012851/andrej-karpathy/) and corporate leaders like Nvidia CEO [Jensen Huang](https://time.com/7341061/jensen-huang-time-person-year-interview/), descending into the weeds to draw out rich and unexpected responses. “You’re not talking to somebody who woke up a loser,” Huang [said](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/jensen-huang) with some exasperation when Patel probed him on exporting AI chips to China. Based in San Francisco, the 25-year-old is [enmeshed](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/business/dwarkesh-patel-podcast-ai.html) in the communities he covers. His audience is filled with tech executives, engineers, and researchers—the people building AI, many of whom he counts as friends. But his beliefs have evolved alongside his enterprise: citing AI’s inability to [learn](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025) from its experience and its [demand](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/the-sample-efficiency-black-hole) for immense amounts of specialized data, he now [describes](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-ai-progress-dec-2025) himself as “moderately bearish in the short term and explosively bullish in the long term” when it comes to AI progress. Patel is a participant in an archive of his own making. “Whatever happens next,” he [wrote](https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dec-strategy-doc) in December, “I want the debates to have happened on this podcast, and to have happened well.” _Powered by Whalar Group_ Dwarkesh Patel Is on the 2026 TIME100 Creators List ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-creators/2026/dwarkesh-patel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-creators/2026/dwarkesh-patel/"},"headline":"Dwarkesh Patel","datePublished":"2026-07-14T11:30:24.211Z","dateModified":"2026-07-14T11:30:24.523Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collection/time100-creators/2026/dwarkesh-patel/","keywords":["TIME100 Creators","list"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e2ba2ad212ff2c1/6a50f0d28b93e5574a5aeba2/time-100-creators-2026-Dwarkesh_Patel.JPG?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y0.00&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tharin Pillay","jobTitle":"Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/tharin-pillay/"}],"creator":"Tharin Pillay","articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e2ba2ad212ff2c1/6a50f0d28b93e5574a5aeba2/time-100-creators-2026-Dwarkesh_Patel.JPG?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675%2Coffset-x0.00%2Coffset-y0.00&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-creators/","name":"TIME100 Creators"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collection/time100-creators/2026/dwarkesh-patel/","name":"Dwarkesh Patel"}}]}] ```