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▶ 4:24 · $GOOGL · Mira Murati's Open Model, Liquid AI's Mercedes Deal, and Meta Gives 3.5B People a Doctor | EP #271
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Peter H. Diamandis

Mira Murati's Open Model, Liquid AI's Mercedes Deal, and Meta Gives 3.5B People a Doctor | EP #271

2026-07-17 · 8 company · 12 thematic
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reine hassani

Reine Hassani is the CEO of Liquid AI, a foundation model lab developing post-transformer architectures inspired by C. elegans neural dynamics. He completed his PhD at MIT under Daniela Rus, co-invented liquid neural networks, and leads commercialization with Mercedes, Shopify, and AMD partnerships.

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.

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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“Demisabi, CEO of DeepMind, he called for a US-led frontier AI standards body modeled on FINRA. When the incumbents ask for the rules and they set the standards, they set up a barrier for all the entry-level labs coming in.”
—alex wissner-gross
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