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Dmitri Dolgov's AI Ascent 2026 fireside laid out the multimodal world-action-language model, the driver-simulator-critic stack, and why the 13x safety number is the bill that competitors haven't paid yet.

Hassabis's "2030" line at AI Ascent 2026 is the same prediction he made in 2010. The publishable claim is the falsifiable one: AlphaFold 3 plus Isomorphic Labs has now slipped its first clinical trial to end of 2026.

Greg Brockman's AI Ascent 2026 thesis is that judgment, not compute, becomes the scarce resource as agents take over execution — and Codex Cloud, Cursor 3, Devin, and Anthropic auto mode are already pricing it in.

Jim Fan's AI Ascent 2026 talk made the case that EgoScale's 0.1% teleop ratio, DreamDojo's 44,000-hour neural simulator, and a stated 95% confidence in robot auto-research by 2040 mean robotics has finally hit the data-and-compute curve LLMs hit in 2020.

Karpathy's AI Ascent 2026 talk laid out the December 2025 phase change, why the Menu Gen app shouldn't exist, jagged intelligence, verifiability as the master variable, and the new programming surface.

At AI Ascent 2026, Pat Grady and Sonya Huang argued long-horizon agents are functional AGI. The new claim is the meta-claim: Sequoia is now writing checks as if commercial AGI already arrived.

Sequoia says the next $1T company will be 'a software company masquerading as a services firm.' The sentence buries vertical SaaS as a category — without ever naming it. What that means and which companies fit.