GPT 5.2 Release, Corporate Collapse in 2026, and $1.1M Job Loss w/ Alexander Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail & Dave Blundin | EP #215
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Open AI releases Gpti 5.2. |
| 0:03.0 | The capabilities are just shockingly different than they were a few weeks prior. |
| 0:07.0 | Open AI has just unveiled GBT 5.2, which it's billing as its most advanced frontier model yet. |
| 0:13.0 | The value that we see people getting from this technology and thus their willingness to pay |
| 0:18.0 | makes us confident that we will be able to significantly ramp revenue. The fastest scaling consumer platform in history, we're almost at a billion users. |
| 0:26.0 | That just blows my mind. A lot of change is coming rapidly. I think the biggest challenges people |
| 0:31.1 | are not projecting properly on how rapidly this is going to tip. I think 2026 is going to see the biggest collapse of the corporate world in the history of business. |
| 0:42.5 | In 2025, we had 1.1 million layoffs, which is the most since the 2020 pandemic. |
| 0:48.4 | 71% of comparisons between a human performing this knowledge work and the machine resulted in the machine doing a better job at more than 11 times the speed of the human and at less than 1% of the cost of the human professional. So knowledge work is cooked. |
| 1:08.0 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:20.6 | Speaking of alien creatures, I was touring with Colossal yesterday, Ben Lamb. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm an advisor, an early investor in this company. |
| 1:26.1 | And Colossal is amazing. |
| 1:30.1 | They've got something like 12 different species at different stages of de-extinction, right? They brought back the dire wolf. They're going to be bringing back |
| 1:37.1 | the saber-tooth tiger. I can't wait for that. Of course, the woolly mammoth. They created the |
| 1:42.3 | woolly mouse, right? So they've been able to identify the genes that the woolly mammoth. They created the woolly mouse, right? So they've been able to identify the genes |
| 1:45.7 | that the wully gene are different, are different phenotypes, right? Like length of hair, |
| 1:52.5 | length of snout. And it's fascinating what they're doing and their ability to actually find the closest living relative and then snippets of DNA. |
| 2:05.6 | So they have DNA going back as far as 1.2 million years. |
| 2:09.6 | They haven't been able to get DNA older than that, but that's still pretty incredible. |
| 2:14.6 | But being able to actually like, yeah. |
| 2:16.6 | Didn't Ben say that we couldn't |
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