Demis Hassabis on AGI, Robots Scale Production, and Elon’s $1T Mars-Shot Comp | EP #253
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Demis Hesabas, the CEO of Deep Mind, says AGI may not need a major breakthrough. |
| 0:07.8 | I've argued in the past that we achieved AGI in the summer of 2020. |
| 0:12.5 | We know, I would argue, what AGI is, and we know how... |
| 0:17.4 | Please define it for me. |
| 0:26.6 | Figure AI, they've increased production from one robot per day to one robot per hour. Their target is 100,000 robots between now and 2030. |
| 0:30.6 | OneX Technologies production goal is 10,000 robots this year. |
| 0:35.6 | 100,000 in 2027. The prediction that comes both from Elon and from |
| 0:39.9 | Brad Adcock, up to 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040. |
| 0:43.9 | It's probably right. What I think is perhaps even more interesting is what does a post-humanoid |
| 0:48.8 | robot form factor look like? There's the kinds of conversations and imaginations that one can have in this, |
| 0:56.4 | you know, exponential singularity that we're living in. |
| 1:01.9 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:15.6 | Everybody, welcome to a special episode of Moonshots here at MIT. This is a conversation around all things happening to uplift humanity. |
| 1:21.6 | You know, I want to read something I wrote this morning as an introduction to today's episode because it's important. |
| 1:28.3 | So welcome to Moonshots where we distill the singularity. |
| 1:32.3 | No politics, no bullshit, just the technology that changes the world, the breakthroughs, |
| 1:39.3 | helping us uplift humanity, the news that matters most, changing our world, impacting our companies |
| 1:45.6 | and our families, our mission to help you understand what it is, why it matters with a dose of |
| 1:53.0 | optimism. So any fans of Moonshots here in the audience today? Nice. Love it. It is an honor and a pleasure. One of the things, you know, last night I was going to sleep, I just had this sense of absolute gratitude for the people in my life who I love and have a chance to work with. I like to bring them on stage. First up, the man who is my guru on all |
| 2:21.3 | things exponential investing. Let's give it up for DB2, Dave Blundon. |
| 2:31.3 | Welcome back to MIT. |
| 2:33.3 | Thank you, Thank you. |
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