How AI Is Bringing Extinct Animals Back (And What Comes Next) | Ben Lamm (Colossal) | EP #245
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The idea of bringing back the Willie Mammoth had been around for a long time. |
| 0:03.0 | You jump in, take the mantle of CEO. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't know if you were expecting to do that. |
| 0:07.0 | I was going to fund it as a side project at first, but then I thought it was just really interesting. |
| 0:12.0 | So Colossil is a parent company, is spinning out a dozen companies, each of which have massive potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Our first biological products company spun out, which was breaking, which is our plastic |
| 0:23.2 | degradation company. |
| 0:24.6 | And so the same system that can bring you a mammoth can also make microbes that can, you |
| 0:28.6 | know, break the chemical bonds of plastic. |
| 0:31.6 | I think every company should be an AI company or is an AI company. |
| 0:34.6 | Without AI, we would not be able to do anything that we're doing. What Ben is building inside of colossal being able to design using AI and then build living products. |
| 0:46.3 | Our vision is... |
| 0:49.5 | Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:14.7 | How do you like having Elon as your warm-up act? Yeah, that's the greatest thing ever. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. So, and he loves Bully Mammas. And he does. He does, and he wants Jurassic Park. He's not alone. He's not alone. I'm not saying that's for me. I'm just saying that he's not alone. I understand that. It's the number one request we get. Yes. And then megalodons is two, which is also really weird. Well, |
| 1:19.8 | megalons are just cool. I mean, they littered their teeth all over the ocean floor. They're still scary. |
| 1:24.8 | That's like you're scary. J'm scared enough of the ocean without it. |
| 1:28.1 | Jaws times 100. |
| 1:29.1 | So as we're going along here, please use your Slydo app to add questions. |
| 1:34.8 | So I want, first of all, I've known you now since pretty much the beginning of colossal. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, you were like first text. |
| 1:42.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.2 | First, second text. |
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