$ANTHROPIC · Opus 4.8 Drops, Demis Hassabis Predicts AGI, and the $220B Foundation | EP #260

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Peter H. Diamandis

Opus 4.8 Drops, Demis Hassabis Predicts AGI, and the $220B Foundation | EP #260

2026-06-01 · 8 company · 12 thematic

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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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“This feels like it's significantly better at managing many, many parallel threads and I think that's really important because for large scale creation of brand new things one of the best advantages AI has is the ability to be effectively a…”

—dave blundin

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