Nathan Lambert

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1,814 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 1 Feb

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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

So it's also very hard to keep track of all of these things, but now I'm look more favorably at GPT 5.2 is long context.

So it's just kind of like, how do I actually get to testing this never ending battle?

There are also a lot of companies that are willing to sell you the open model inference at a very low cost.

I think like OpenRouter, it's easy to do the look at multimodal things.

You can run DeepSeq on perplexity.

I think all of us sitting here are like, we use OpenAI GPT-5 Pro consistently.

We're all willing to pay for the marginal intelligence gain.

And anyone that's like these models from the US are better in terms of the outputs.

I think that the question is,

Will they stay better for this year and for years going?

But it's like, so long as they're better, I'm going to pay for it to use them.

I think there's also analysis that shows that the way that the Chinese models are served, you could argue due to expert controls or not, is that they use fewer GPUs for replica, which makes them slower and have different errors.

And it's like speed and intelligence.

If these things are in your favor as a user, I think in the US, a lot of users will go for this.

And I think that that is something that will...

spur these chinese companies to want to compete in other ways whether it's like free or substantially lower costs or it'll breed creativity in terms of offerings which is good for the ecosystem but i just think the simple thing is the u.s models are currently better and we use them and i try chinese i try these other open models and i'm like fun but not gonna i don't go back to it

It's a good side-by-side for people to do.

So you can have Cloud Code open, you can have Cursor open, you can have VS Code open, and you can select the same models on all of them and ask questions.

It's very interesting.

The Cloud Code is way better in that domain.

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