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What will AI look like in the next few years?

Of the 28 moments we cut that answer this, 21 look a year or two out, 4 look a decade or more out and 3 look about five years out. Arvind Krishna said on All-In (Oct 21, 2026) that open-weight models will handle much enterprise AI because they are cheaper and give companies more control. Sergey Levine said on Minus One (Oct 22, 2026) that robots eventually generate vast amounts of physical-world data and learn broader skills.

In a year or two21

  1. The MAD Podcast · · 2 min

    Mistral says its models speed senior researchers up two to four times

    “it accelerates our most senior researcher by a factor two, three or four with our models.”
    Pierre StockVP of Science, Mistral AI1:14:53
  2. MTS · · 3 min

    More efficient AI could unlock demand across the economy

    “we want to unlock this 90% of the economy, which is untouched right now.”
    Aidan SmithCo-founder, Flapping Airplanes11:38
  3. All-In · · 6 min

    Open-weight models could handle most enterprise AI at lower cost

    “Which enterprise in the world will not accept a 10 times, or in this case, a 40 times cheaper answer for effectively what can do 95% of the work”
    Arvind KrishnaChairman & CEO, IBM13:13
  4. All-In · · 4 min

    AI could consolidate hundreds of enterprise software vendors

    “it's silly that our customers have to buy 40 different solutions and stitch them together.”
    Nikesh AroraChairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks35:24
  5. Sources · · 4 min

    Pichai expects a productivity leap from AI agents in 2027

    “I think if in some ways I view 2027 as a golden age of that productivity frontier for us”
    Sundar PichaiCEO, Google and Alphabet9:59
  6. MTS · · 2 min

    Real-world AI will become more visible in San Francisco

    “i think we're going to see more and more of that actually happening a year from now and we'll probably be quite surprised where that lands.”
    Ivan BurazinCo-founder & CEO, Daytona12:01
  7. MTS · · 2 min

    Cancer AI tools could reach clinical trials within a year

    “some of these tools could potentially reach these clinical trials, at the very least, definitely like retrospective trials, potentially even prospective trials.”
    Tanishq AbrahamCo-founder & CEO, Sophont21:50
  8. MTS · · 3 min

    Patient tests may matter before new drugs reach the clinic

    “that can be done in a lot quicker timeline, in my opinion, compared to like developing drugs from scratch.”
    Tanishq AbrahamCo-founder & CEO, Sophont16:39
  9. Training Data · · 3 min

    Constrained jobs will come before household robots

    “Laundry folding, we spent about a year and a half plus trying to solve. And I think it will absolutely get solved in your term.”
    Josh GaoFounder & CEO, Mecka AI22:59
  10. MTS · · 4 min

    Agent swarms need structure to stay manageable

    “we are talking about a swarm, which is an unstructured group that has no hierarchy, no norms, nothing specific in terms of how it's managed.”
    Nenad TomaševSenior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind24:33
  11. 20VC · · 8 min

    AI investors should look for expertise, speed and brand

    “any inference will work. There's just so much demand for it. And I don't know if it's going to get less anytime soon.”
    Harrison ChaseCo-founder & CEO, LangChain48:59
  12. MTS · · 2 min

    Enterprise agents will spread across apps and act proactively

    “proactively suggest actions, suggest next steps. Proactively take actions for you when needed.”
    Bernardo AceitunoPresident, Stack AI18:29
  13. Moonshots · · 2 min

    In-silico cures for 5,000 diseases may arrive in 2 to 3 years

    “I think we're going to see that in the next two to three years maximum.”
    Alexander Wissner-GrossFounder, Reified57:49
  14. Knuckle Up with Nakul · · 5 min

    Agent growth could make compute the next infrastructure bottleneck

    “I still think that we are undervaluing just how much that inference is going to come online, how fast these new models are”
    Jake CooperFounder & CEO, Railway56:11
  15. TBPN · · 5 min

    Open-source models trail closed ones by about six months

    “This is different because we're getting this capability before we've really characterized the shape of the threat.”
    John CooganCo-host, TBPN6:21
  16. Sources · · 3 min

    AI smartphones will rely on agents and personal context

    “The boundaries of OS and apps no longer matter. And those things, those experiences happen across multiple devices.”
    Cristiano AmonCEO, Qualcomm20:30
  17. Minus One · · 4 min

    AI will speed simple builds, while safety-critical work stays hard

    “things that in the past would take a large company a year. Now you'd be able to do with a team of five people in a month.”
    Dmitri DolgovCo-CEO, Waymo43:14
  18. AI & I · · 2 min

    Work will run on company agents while personal agents stay personal

    “I really don't see like, us, or the industry, repeating the chaos of like, every worker gets their coworker, and we're all gonna like double our company size, you know?”
    Willie WilliamsHead of Platform, Every18:46
  19. The Cognitive Revolution · · 3 min

    AI is making decades-old system migrations feasible in months

    “instead of planning it as a six-year thing, we're now going to do it in six months.”
    Woodson MartinCEO, OutSystems44:10
  20. Lenny's Podcast · · 2 min

    Most internet actions will soon be taken by agents

    “I think the majority of actions on the internet will be taken by agents. Models are going to become more cheaper and faster at rates that are, you know, quite incredible.”
    Tibo SottiauxHead of ChatGPT, OpenAI30:55
  21. All-In · · 5 min

    Cyber defense will force governments to allocate GPUs

    “So the attempt to try and centralize and manage the control of the software, I think is a fool's errand.”
    David FriedbergCEO, Ohalo20:34

Ten years and more4

  1. Minus One · · 7 min

    General-purpose robots can bootstrap their own data

    “The good thing about robots is that they are less specialized. Because, like, it seems counterintuitive.”
    Sergey LevineCo-founder, Physical Intelligence25:07
  2. Minus One · · 5 min

    Robotics may advance faster by solving the whole field

    “And I think that there's a good reason why AI systems have this blessing of generality, because when you have generality, you get more data.”
    Sergey LevineCo-founder, Physical Intelligence29:48
  3. No Priors · · 7 min

    Enterprises may reserve frontier models for their hardest tasks

    “the open weight models right now are so good. Even if they're three months behind, it's plenty for what we need.”
    George KurtzPresident & CEO, CrowdStrike23:28
  4. Moonshots · · 3 min

    Math is bulk-solved first because it is easiest to verify

    “It simply hit math first because math is easiest to verify. It's going to hit all of science. It's going to hit all of engineering, all of medicine”
    Alexander Wissner-GrossFounder, Reified42:51

Within five years3

  1. BG2 · · 5 min

    Why the infrastructure build-out doesn't need trillion-dollar labs

    “We're putting way too much pressure on two labs. I'm delighted to partner with them and support them.”
    Jensen HuangFounder & CEO, NVIDIA1:12:09
  2. The Cognitive Revolution · · 5 min

    Conversational agents will not replace every app interface

    “But I still want to know, like, what the hell does the world look like around me? How is it shaped?”
    Woodson MartinCEO, OutSystems56:26
  3. The Cognitive Revolution · · 4 min

    Enterprise platforms will differentiate through specialization

    “There's going to be a common set of building blocks everybody needs. And then there's what do you get really good at?”
    Woodson MartinCEO, OutSystems1:01:33

Each moment is a few minutes of a long interview, cut by Real Alpha and filed under how it answers by a model that read its claim and quote. Open a moment for its full transcript. Last moment added Oct 22, 2026.