Dwarkesh Patel — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Hosts The Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring long-form interviews on artificial intelligence, science, and history.
Named one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time in 2024.
Co-author of the 2025 book "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025."
Studied computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.

Biography

Dwarkesh Patel is an American writer and podcaster, born in India in 2000, who moved to the United States at the age of eight. He studied computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he began interviewing writers and technologists in 2020 for an early version of his podcast, then called The Lunar Society. He hosts The Dwarkesh Podcast, a long-form interview show that focuses on artificial intelligence, science, and history.