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Is NVIDIA unstoppable? In this episode of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Maghraoui and Martin Keen to unpack the biggest announcements from CES 2026. First up, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang revealed the Rubin platform—a chip architecture promising 5X the performance of Blackwell and slashing inference token costs by 10X. Does this cement NVIDIA’s dominance? We also explore the wild world of CES gadgets. Then, we look at whether Meta's USD 2 Billion acquisition of Manus AI signals a major pivot toward enterprise agentic platforms. Later, we dissect DeepSeek’s newpaper on manifold-constrained hyperconnections (MHC)—a smarter way to train models that prioritizes efficiency over brute-force scaling. Finally, we analyze new polling data revealing Americans' complex relationship with AI: optimistic about the benefits but deeply concerned about who controls it. All that and more on Mixture of Experts! 

00:00 – Introduction 
01:27 – CES 2026 
12:41 – Meta's USD 2 Billion Manus bet 
20:08 – DeepSeek tackles scaling 
33:35 – AI optimism vs. fear 

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A panel discussion covering major AI developments in 2025, including Disney's licensing deal with OpenAI for character IP in generative models, Time Magazine naming AI architects as Person of the Year (focusing on business leaders rather than researchers), NVIDIA's Neotron 3 model release with hybrid architecture, and Anthropic's "soul document" approach to model alignment through fine-tuning rather than prompting. The conversation explores the tension between AI hype and technical progress, the commoditization of models, and evolving approaches to AI safety and alignment.

CES 2026 AI highlights: NVIDIA Rubin & wild gadgets