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▶ 104:37 · Semiconductors · Wafer-scale computing breaks memory wall; SRAM bandwidth advantage disrupts GPU dominance
episode briefing
Peter H. Diamandis

Google I/O 2026, Karpathy Joins Anthropic, and Cerebras’ $95B IPO | EP #256

2026-05-21 · 12 company · 10 thematic
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andrew feldman

Leads Cerebras, a public company (CBRS) building wafer-scale AI inference chips; previously co-founded SeaMicro (acquired by AMD); describes $25B backlog and global data center buildout at unprecedented scale.

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.

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.

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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