State of AI author Nathan Benaich on recursive self-improvement and why AI-native firms grow 3x faster
arena · x · 2026-11-05
Nathan Benaich, author of the State of AI Report and founder of Air Street Capital, joined LMArena for a conversation with Peter Gostev covering:
- Recursive self-improvement: whether AI is building AI, and what it will take to get there
- Robotics models that work across customers
- AI-discovered drugs in clinical trials
- How AI-native companies are growing roughly 3x faster than AI-enabled ones
- AI-driven research and more
The full conversation is available on LMArena's YouTube channel.
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