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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 do think right now it’s mostly on the proprietary LLM side, but we will see more of that in open-source tooling. It is a huge unlock because then you can really outsource certain tasks from just memorization to actual computation—you know, instead of having the LLM memorize what is 23 plus 5, just use a calculator.”
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…So what’s the future of tool use this year and in the coming years? Do you think there’s going to be a lot of developments there, and how that’s integrated into the entire stack? I do think right now it’s mostly on the proprietary LLM side, but we will see more of that in open-source tooling. It is a huge unlock because then you can really outsource certain tasks from just memorization to actual computation—you know, instead of having the LLM memorize what is 23 plus 5, just use a calculator. So do you think that can help solve hallucinations?…
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