Nathan Lambert

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI · 1 Feb 2026 podcast

I think in July was when we had like four or five deep sea caliber Chinese open weight models in Xero from the US.

And that's the moment where I was released this and I was like, oh, I guess I have to spend energy on this because nobody else is going to do it.

So it takes a lot of people contributing together.

And I don't say that like the Atom Project isn't like the thing that's helping to move the ecosystem, but it's people like me doing this sort of thing to get the word out.

Yeah.

I mean, like the AI Action Plan is a plan, but largely I think it's like

maybe the most coherent policy document that has come out of the administration.

And I hope that it largely succeeds.

And I know people that have worked on the AI action plan and the challenge is taking policy and making it real.

And I have no idea how to do this as an AI researcher, but like, like largely a lot of things in that were very real.

And there's a huge build out of AI in the country.

And it's like, there are a lot of issues that people are hearing about from water use to whatever.

And like, we should be able to build things in this country, but also we need to,

not ruin places in our country in the process of building it.

And it's worthwhile to spend energy on.

I think that's a role that the federal government plays.

It's like they set the agenda.

And with AI setting the agenda that open weight should be a first consideration, that's a large part of what they can do.

And then people think about it.

The way that I could have gotten this to go more viral was to tell a story of Chinese AI integrating with an authoritarian state and being ASI and taking over the world and therefore we need our own American models.

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