State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490
In this Lex Fridman conversation with Sebastian Raschka and Nathan Lambert, the discussion centers on the state of AI heading into 2026. The excerpt covers major model releases, the impact of the DeepSeek moment, open-weight models, competition between U.S. and Chinese labs, and how products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are shaping user behavior. It also touches on why organizational culture, hardware budgets, and real-world usage patterns may matter as much as raw model quality.