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▶ 7:00 · $TSLA · Sonnet 5 Drops, China’s $4,900 Robot, Fusion’s First Plant Gets Licensed W/ Philip Johnston | #268
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Peter H. Diamandis

Sonnet 5 Drops, China’s $4,900 Robot, Fusion’s First Plant Gets Licensed W/ Philip Johnston | #268

2026-07-01 · 20 company · 10 thematic
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philip johnston

Co-founder and CEO of Star Cloud, building data centers in space. Led the first deployment (Star Cloud 1) with five Nvidia GPUs including an H100, achieving first model training in space. Filed with SEC for 88,000 satellite constellation delivering 20GW compute capacity.

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.

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.

peter diamandis

Peter Diamandis hosts the Moonshots podcast with a panel of 'mates.' He founded XPRIZE and Singularity University, sits on boards of Trust & Will and Vesmark, and runs the Future Vision XPRIZE for positive AI futures. He frames discussions around the 'singularity economy' and exponential technologies.

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“Elon projecting, you know, tens of millions of robots to 50 million robots by 20 by 2030 and and billions going into the early 2030s... If you take the the cost of assembly down to near zero, what we're left is the cost of raw materials an…”
—alex wissner-gross
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