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Published · transcript-backedNathan Lambert: belief
1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“I think that dream is actually kind of dying. As you talked about with the specialized models where it’s like… and multimodal is often… like, video generation is a totally different thing.”
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- 1 Feb 2026
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…But I think what everybody’s chasing now is a general system that’s useful to everybody. So, okay, if that’s not… that can plateau, right? I think that dream is actually kind of dying. As you talked about with the specialized models where it’s like… and multimodal is often… like, video generation is a totally different thing. “That dream is kind of dying” is a big statement, because I don’t know if it’s dying. If you ask the actual Frontier Lab people, they’re still chasing it, right?…
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