AI Roundtable: What Everyone Missed About Gemini 3 w/ Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #209

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:00)

People who are already in the ecosystem now have a super intelligence at their beck and call. That's probably the least interesting thing.

Dave Blundin (0:07)

When they're on the cusp of the singularity, they'll start soft selling it.

Peter Diamandis (0:12)

Gemini 3.0, which has in just a day climbed all the third-party AI rankings. Let's break down though what this so-called Gemini leap means.

Salim Ismail (0:19)

This will change the game completely for everything ever.

Peter Diamandis (0:22)

Why is this just not another little faster, little better capability?

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:28)

We have a way of measuring progress in our civilization. AI is imminently, I think, well positioned now that these benchmarks are saturating to start solving the hardest problems on Earth in math, science, engineering, medicine.

Dave Blundin (0:41)

All of a sudden, you can build software by talking to the machine. This is like a different world starting today from the day that we lived in yesterday.

Peter Diamandis (0:53)

Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. You know, the hardest thing for me when I'm going over the slides is what to cut out. I mean, it's all so good.

Dave Blundin (1:05)

All right.

Peter Diamandis (1:06)

It's every everyone on there could be like an entire hour conversation. The question of how we group it and how we actually make it such that it's a fun conversation is is so is so challenging. I mean, so much going on.

Salim Ismail (1:21)

We almost want to have an episode on robotics, an episode on energy, an episode on AI.

Peter Diamandis (1:27)

But then if we do that, we're publishing more than once a week, which is a lot and sometimes we do. And then if you've gone like three weeks without covering one of the fields, it's like disruptive shock therapy.

Salim Ismail (1:40)

The world is over.

Dave Blundin (1:46)

The audience has a limited amount of time too, so we got to try and help them as much as possible twice a week basically and that's all you can do.

Peter Diamandis (1:54)

I hope you guys have as much fun as I do on this.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (1:57)

Oh yes.

Salim Ismail (1:58)

It's awesome scanning all the breakthroughs and looking at how fast it's all moving. It's really incredible.

Peter Diamandis (2:03)

And then trying to figure out, okay, what does this really mean? Okay, besides yet another benchmark or besides yet another, you know, this number is greater than that number. Okay, so like, what does it mean for everybody?

Dave Blundin (2:16)

I get so buried in the day to day, you know, there's just so much going on. And if it weren't for the podcast pulling me out of the weeds, I would miss all kinds of things. And I tell you, I get really frustrated when people don't know what's going on and they're not reacting to it. I'm like, well, the only reason I know what's going on is because we do the podcast and that prep time for it is what pulls me up out of this. I love this time.

Peter Diamandis (2:39)

For sure. And it's like I told my son, hey, you know, Gemini 3 is out and it's got amazing benchmarks. And he goes, yeah, insert name of model here, insert number here. Like every week you tell me that. It's like, yeah, you're right.

Dave Blundin (2:54)

Well, we're the antidote for that because, you know, as we're always saying, people get inured to things so quickly and they miss the implications. And that's true even at MIT where I've been for the last three days.

But it's just not true. This is like step function, life changing stuff.

Salim Ismail (3:12)

Week by week.

Peter Diamandis (3:13)

I think we should just jump in because like there's a lot if you guys are ready. All right, so I'm here with DB2, AWG, Mr. EXO. They're on your call signs. And let's jump. They're all airports.

They're all three letter airport signifiers. Okay, let's get going here. So welcome to Moonshots, everybody. This is another episode of WTF Just Happened in Tech. The real news and for us, like the only news and the implications and what does it mean. And hopefully we can go deeper into what does it mean for you, your family, your business, your company, your country, all of those things. We're going to open up with the hyperscalers, Google XAI, OpenAI and the TLDR for this episode is Google is Winning. A lot going on in Google First. We just saw the release of Gemini 3 yesterday, which is why we're recording today, trying to be right here, right now. All right, let's jump in. I'm going to share a video from Josh Woodward. Josh is a friend. I had him on the Abundance stage a year ago. He now heads Gemini and Google Labs, a brilliant presenter. We're going to have him on this podcast right in the new year. Excited for that. All right, let's jump in.