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Lex Fridman Podcast
Long-form conversations with researchers, founders, scientists, and public figures across AI, technology, science, philosophy, and geopolitics.
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Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477
China combines centralized political goals with decentralized local competition, allowing mayors and private firms to scale EVs, solar, semiconductors, and AI rapidly.The next growth test is shifting from infrastructure and exports toward household consumption, while property may require 3–5 years—or 10 in a bad transition—and export controls may accelerate domestic substitution.
DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459
Lex FridmanDylan PatelNathan Lambert
DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 reset the AI cost curve through reinforcement learning, open weights, mixture-of-experts routing, and MLA, not a mythical $5 million frontier model.With roughly 37 billion of 600-plus billion parameters active per token and custom H800 scheduling, efficiency may expand inference demand, while export controls, TSMC, power, and cooling remain decisive constraints.