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▶ 47:10 · $GROK · Grok 4.5 reaches cost-per-task frontier via Cursor merger; Grok Imagine targets digital Optimus
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Peter H. Diamandis

The Hugging Face Breach, Moonshot AI Valued at $20B, and Living to 1,759 Years Old | EP #273

2026-07-24 · 14 company · 20 thematic
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jensen huang

Co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia. He has led the company from graphics processors into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.

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“Grock 4.5 that we saw that has finally again touched the cost per task optimal frontier isn't actually the same Grock. It's a Grock that's basically merged in and/or apparently on its way to becoming Cursor's model but rebranded as Grock..…”
—alex wissner-gross
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