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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

AI Insiders Reveal Elon Musk's Master Plan to Win AI w/ Dave Blundin & Alex Wissner-Gross | EP #192

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified, focused on AI and complex systems. – My companies: Reverse the age of my skin using the same cream at https://qr.diamandis.com/oneskinpod   Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding      –- Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on September 2nd, 2025 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. -------- Chapters 02:50 - The Importance of Positive News in Tech 05:49 - Education and the Future of Learning 09:02 - AI Wars: Colossus II and Hardware Scaling 12:02 - Training vs. Inference in AI Models 18:02 - Elon Musk's XAI and Recruitment Strategies 20:47 - The Rise of NanoBanana and AI in Media 26:38 - Google's AI-Powered Live Translation 29:03 - The Future of Language and Cultural Diversity 48:07 - AI Disruption in Language Learning 51:56 - The Future of SaaS Companies 57:28 - NVIDIA's Market Position and AI Chips 59:51 - China's AI Chip Landscape 01:03:13 - India's AI Infrastructure Revolution 01:11:11 - The Concept of AI Governance 01:15:16 - Economic Implications of AI Investment 01:19:54 - AI in Healthcare Innovations 01:36:32 - The Future of Urban Planning with AI 01:40:39 - Electricity Costs and AI's Impact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

XAI launches Rock Code Fast 1. I had to double check the numbers on this because they were pretty epic.

0:06.9

It's insane. Elon went from zero to building Colossus 1 in 122 days. Everyone said it couldn't be done.

0:15.2

This guy will not slow down. He wants to be number one and and we're seeing these data centers leap frauding each

0:21.8

other. Elon, you know, the entrepreneur of all entrepreneurs knows that it's all or nothing.

0:26.5

You don't build the second biggest data center. You either win the race, so you don't win the race.

0:30.8

This is the bitter lesson as applied to hardware scale. It's sort of a case study in brute force

0:37.0

hardware scaling, where we're seeing

0:38.8

the power, the chips, the data centers, all being brute force scales. These incredible tools

0:45.3

are demonetizing, democratizing, an extraordinary rate. All the students struggling with their

0:50.4

largely irrelevant curriculum, this is what you should be doing.

0:57.6

Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:04.8

Welcome everybody to Moonshots in our weekly episode of WTF just happened in tech.

1:09.4

I'm here with my Moonshot mates, Alex Weisner Gross, Dave Blundon.

1:13.3

Salimus Mal is in India right now. We'll talk about that in a minute.

1:23.2

But this is the news we hope that you watch, that makes you optimistic about the future, that raises your IQ points 20 and gives you a chance to see the future.

1:27.1

So Dave and Alex, good morning, guys.

1:28.1

Good morning.

1:30.2

So how was Labor Day for you?

1:36.2

I got a lot of grief, actually, for being distracted and antisocial.

1:40.2

I was talking to my AI agents.

1:42.3

They were pestering me with progress all weekend. They have an IQ of 148 now, so it's pretty hard to deny them. They're getting needy for the first time. You know, I've been waiting for this moment since I was 14 years old, so it's pretty hard for me to tune it out. I missed you, Dave. They are getting needy. Alex, did you labor over Labor Day? Absolutely. Never a dull moment. Yeah. Yeah, me too. So I'm in Port Towns in Washington near the San Juan's. I have been here for a week with a family, which means I'm getting up super early, like at 5 a.m. just to actually get my email done and work and do my writing and then spend time with my 14-year-olds on the beach in the woods.

2:16.6

We went fishing and I caught

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