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Partner, Sequoia Capital · Dec 3, 2025 · Essay, AI in 2026: A Tale of Two AIs

Dwarkesh Patel’s recent podcast interviews with Richard Sutton, Andrej Karpathy, and Ilya Sutskever are a demarcating line; the new consensus is that the AGI window will be in the 2030s, at earliest.

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David Cahn, Partner, Sequoia Capital
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AI in 2026: A Tale of Two AIs
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