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Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

2026-05-09 · 15 company · 13 thematic

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Brian Elliot is CEO of Blitzy, an autonomous software development platform for enterprises. West Point graduate, Army Ranger, served in Syria. Co-founded Blitzy with Sid (from India) after meeting at HBS. Raised $200M at $1.4B valuation. Blitzy uses multi-model orchestration for large-scale code generation.

peter

Peter Diamandis hosts the Moonshots podcast, focusing on exponential technologies, AI, space, and longevity. He references his Abundance Summit and Moonshot Gathering events.

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.

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.

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“We are the most inference compute intensive version of code generation. So we're good today for anthropic, good today for OpenAI, good today for Gemini. But what's unclear to the outside is you get remarkable benefits beyond the state-of-t…”

—brian

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