GPUs: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
GPUs came up in 15 of 89 episodes (17%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, about the same share as in the earlier weeks (21%).
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 15 episodes behind the newest bar
- Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EVTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it 17 times
- John Arnold Joins, 4 Tech Arguments (Number 3 Will Shock You)TBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- From AGENTS.md to Enterprise DeploymentPractical AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it 3 times
- 🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 8 times
- 🔬 Google's AI Scientist Started as an Attempt to Automate Kaggle — John Platt, Google Fel…Latent Space · week ending Sep 27 · said it 4 times
- The Ads Business Model Will Die & Lessons from Working with Elon at Twitter | Parag Agraw…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 27 · said it 8 times
- Some Personal Agent News, CharlestonAI Founder Joins, 10%, Mikey Shulman, Keith RaboisTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 3 times
- Fruitfly Hard Takeoff, Parker's Vineyard, Personal AgentsTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementDwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Model Mayhem, Nvidia Hugging Face, Pablo Torre Joins, New Data Center DesignsTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- 🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 5 times
- Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene HaasNo Priors · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- Trillion Token Context. No, Really — Anima Anandkumar & Benedikt Jenik, Accelerated Under…Latent Space · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTOLatent Space · week ending Sep 6 · said it 12 times
- How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 56 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…inference, the hardware starts to matter. They had to install GPUs across their servers. They have servers across…”
Cloudflare: Leading Cybersecurity [Business Breakdownes Ep 241]Cloudflare Final
“…expanding to 555,000 GPUs across three buildings, 18 billion in investment. He then if you look at…”
OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, S…
“…when I use a TPU, it's this big systolic array that's perfect for doing matrix multiplies, whereas a GPU is very flexible. It's great when you have lots of branching or irregular memory access." But what is AI? It's just these very predictable matrix…”
“…data center with literally hundreds of thousands of GPUs, but they're not doing a very good job of selling them. So they…”
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Can…
“…what what did you write down? GPUs and power plants. Okay, these are also good. Uh, these, by the way,…”
GTA 6 Goldrush, TBPN's $100M OpenAI Deal, The OG Clickbait King Who Burned $4B/Year
“…discover you we we'll find the missing GPU cluster in Atlantis and maybe there is a cyclicality to all of this. But um…”
Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…the demand come? Are those are those GPUs sitting idle? Are those is that infrastructure getting used efficiently?”
Meta Connect Reactions, Zuck's Beer Pong Controversy, ClusterMAX 3.0, New Bentley EV
“…we we can run models on the platform. So, you know, obviously a lot of our customers are air-gapped, and some of them were were smart enough to buy GPUs a few years ago. So some of them have lots of GPUs that they can run all these local models and have a great experience. Some are wishing that…”
“…like diving into the architectures of how GPUs work and designing models which are you know exploiting the architecture…”
🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
“…different dimensions which model and which GPU running that model via which vendor. when you're in a world where…”
The Ads Business Model Will Die & Lessons from Working with Elon at Twitter | Parag Agraw…
“…roll back and then let self-play from there. In the limit, you’re picturing just giving them a GPU and maybe neural nets or something and saying, "Okay, figure out how to train a model to do these particular tasks." The way it currently works is we go up…”
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 6 | 20 |
| Latent Space | 4 | 20 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 2 | 10 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 1 | 5 |
| No Priors | 1 | 3 |
| Practical AI | 1 | 1 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 11 |
| My First Million | 0 | 2 |
| How I AI | 0 | 1 |
| Invest Like the Best | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “GPU” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.