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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

How AI Is Bringing Extinct Animals Back (And What Comes Next) | Ben Lamm (Colossal) | EP #245

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8604 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This episode was filmed at the 2026 Abundance360 Summit. Learn more at https://www.abundance360.com/  This interview explores the groundbreaking work of Colossal in synthetic biology, de-extinction, and AI integration. Colossal CEO Ben Lamm explains how the company is revolutionizing biodiversity preservation, tackling plastic pollution, and creating living products with immense potential. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Ben Lamm is Co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding      Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: https://www.fountainlife.com/peter  _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Ben X Instagram Linkedin Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on March 10th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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