State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #490
Lex Fridman
The state of AI in 2026 is defined by a shift away from proprietary dominance toward open-weight models driven largely by budget constraints rather than unique ideas, a trend accelerated by the "DeepSeek moment" where Chinese firms like DeepSeek released unrestricted licenses that allowed local depl …