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Published · transcript-backedPeter Steinberger: belief
12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
“Um, I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn’t make it easy to use Google without Google.”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…There’s gonna be a lot of powerful, rich companies fighting back. So it’s really intere- You’re at the center, you’re the catalyst, the leader, and happen to be at the center of this kind of revolution where it’s get- gonna completely change how we interact with services with, with web. And so, like, there’s companies at Google that are gonna push back. I mean, there’s every major companies you could think of is gonna push back. Even… Yeah, even search. Um, I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn’t make it easy to use Google without Google. I’m not sure if that’s the right strategy, but I’m not Google. Yeah, there’s a, there’s a nice balance from a big company perspective ’cause if you push back too much for too long, you become Blockbuster and you lose everything to the Netflixes of the world. But some pushback is probably good during a revolution to see.…
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