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▶ 82:36 · AI Drug Discovery · EVO2 40B open model designs viable phages on MacBook; DNA sequencers everywhere for pandemic defense
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Peter H. Diamandis

A $2M AI Movie Just Beat Hollywood, Anthropic Watermarks Every Word, & Zuck Promises ASI | EP #279

2026-08-13 · 15 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.

immad

Immad (Immad Mustach) runs AI media generation companies, previously built watermarking teams. He provides ground-truth on open-source model capabilities (running EVO2 on MacBook, DeepSeek pricing), Chinese AI dominance, and practical biosecurity. Signed AI pause letter in 2023 but now says 'cat's out of the bag.'

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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