$COLOSSAL-BIOSCIENCES · Demis Hassabis on AGI, Robots Scale Production, and Elon’s $1T Mars-Shot Comp | EP 253

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Peter H. Diamandis

Demis Hassabis on AGI, Robots Scale Production, and Elon’s $1T Mars-Shot Comp | EP 253

2026-05-07 · 5 company · 8 thematic

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salim ismail

Salim Ismail is a serial entrepreneur and strategist who co-wrote Exponential Organizations (ExO 1.0 and 2.0). He leads the OpenExO community of 50,000 people in 150 countries and has worked with Fortune 500 companies (P&G, Siemens Energy, HP, Black & Decker) on edge innovation. He is launching the Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0) as a living AI book via a Claude skill.

dave blundin

Dave Blundin (DB2) is Peter Diamandis' longtime friend and MIT roommate, partner at Link Ventures, and described as a guru on exponential investing. He focuses on moonshot-stage companies in AI, robotics, and space.

alex wissner-gross

Computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and investor whose work spans artificial intelligence and complex systems. He is the founder and managing partner of Reified.

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“I think starting with extinct species is just a special case of what technology I I do think will enable us to do, which is to reach back into our past light cone, take every species that's ever lived, bring it back in whatever form... als…”

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