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1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I think the internet will probably be related to communication—it could be a phone, internet, or a satellite.”
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…I generally agree, but is it the connectivity of the internet and compute able to be merged? Or is it both of them? I think the internet will probably be related to communication—it could be a phone, internet, or a satellite. And compute is more like the scaling aspect of it. It’s possible that the internet is completely forgotten. That the internet is wrapped into the phone networks, like communication networks. This is just another manifestation of that, and the real breakthrough comes from just the increased compute—Moore’s Law, broadly defined.…
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