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1 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
“Can you describe 9/9/6 as a culture? I believe you could say it was invented in China and adopted in Silicon Valley.”
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- Lex Fridman
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- 1 Feb 2026
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…I feel like my friends who are professors seem on average happier than my friends who work at— a frontier lab, to be totally honest. Because there’s just a grounding and— the frontier labs definitely do this 9/9/6— which essentially is shorthand for work all the time. Can you describe 9/9/6 as a culture? I believe you could say it was invented in China and adopted in Silicon Valley. What’s 9/9/6? It’s 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM— six days a week.…
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