AI This Week: NVIDIA’s Record Revenue, Elon’s Data Centers in Space & Gemini 3’s Insane Performance w/ Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #210

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

Just when you thought Nvidia couldn't do it again and again, we're now at $57 billion, 62% year-on-year growth.

SPEAKER_2 (0:10)

We're in the beginning of a very long-term build-out of the fundamental infrastructure of humanity, which is computing.

Peter Diamandis (0:19)

Nvidia has just become the central bank for AI, and they're minting their own currency, which is compute, and everybody's got to buy their currency. There's got to be somebody who's going to challenge Nvidia.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:32)

The non-incumbents are obvious.

Peter Diamandis (0:35)

Saudi Arabia is positioning itself as a global AI superpower.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:40)

That to me looks like we're seeing the re-architecting from the ground up of an entirely new sovereign stack.

Dave Blundin (0:46)

Since I was a teenager, I've been trying to visualize how the singularity happens and what does it look like in the last few years before the singularity, and now we're right in the middle of it, and it's just I'm giddy with excitement. Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

Peter Diamandis (1:05)

First of all, guys, what are you doing tonight? Anybody know what they're doing tonight? I know what I'm doing tonight.

Salim Ismail (1:12)

What are you doing tonight?

Peter Diamandis (1:13)

I'm watching on Prime Video the age of disclosure. Alex, you?

Alexander Wissner-Gross (1:20)

I'm already well into it.

Peter Diamandis (1:22)

You're okay. That's right. It went live at midnight last night. Do you guys know what this is? No. So, Salim, it is a tell-all documentary about the fact that we've been covering up alien visitations, spaceships for the last 80 years. So I can't wait to see it. I'm gonna drag my kids along with me to watch this thing. I mean, it should be epic. Like, Dave?

Dave Blundin (1:52)

Now that you say it, I will. I didn't have plans otherwise. All right.

Peter Diamandis (1:56)

Well, I mean, listen, the fact that at the same time that AGI and ASI is coming online, there's all of these, you know, increasing evidence of, I don't know, I just think, is it causation or causality or just, you know...

Salim Ismail (2:12)

Correlation.

Peter Diamandis (2:13)

Correlation is what I meant. Yeah, for sure.

Dave Blundin (2:15)

Well, I mean, it's definitely tied to human events that trigger... I mean, every sci-fi movie knows this. When you hit a milestone, it triggers something and then the aliens reveal.

Peter Diamandis (2:26)

Okay.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (2:27)

I'll just comment also. I mean, I mentioned in the last episode, given enough super intelligence, any and all hidden agents become shallow. So we'll see what happens.

Peter Diamandis (2:39)

Yeah.

Dave Blundin (2:40)

Yeah. Actually, Alex, I'm not big on the aliens, but I am very big on intelligences everywhere. I really love your theory on that. But after we discover the nature of intelligence, we're going to find that you can compute with virtually anything and it's happening all over the place. I just can't wait for that breakthrough, which is connected. It's not quite as newsworthy.

Salim Ismail (3:01)

I think it would be interesting once in a while to have a couple of dedicated episodes to very specific topics. Like one is what's intelligence, another one could be abundance and what the hell is it and how do you measure it and really go deep on that topic for a whole episode. Interesting.

Dave Blundin (3:18)

You know what I was thinking after the last episode too is Peter, The Future is Faster Than You Think is incredibly timely and re-printing that or rewriting it with... There's so much that's changed. It's just been a few years. But that book, it's the one on my backdrop in the podcast duty in the office and it's moved it to the front and center now because I really want everybody to flip through it again. But it's really, really prescient.

Peter Diamandis (3:42)

Thanks buddy. The next book that Stephen Kotler and I have written comes out April 14th. It's called We Are as Gods, Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. So it's a follow on to the original book Abundance. Anyway, it's probably the best work we've done. But I agree, The Future is Faster Than You Think.

I'm not sure what the new title would be.

Salim Ismail (4:06)

Well, it's faster than you think.

Peter Diamandis (4:08)

Oh, no. That's clearly the way you go. I'm not going to pull the curse while on this.

Dave Blundin (4:14)

Hey, that outro today is unbelievable.

Salim Ismail (4:17)

It was nuts.

Peter Diamandis (4:18)

The creativity is crazy. We'll show it at the end of this episode.

Dave Blundin (4:22)

Ask the audience during the episode to rebrand your books with video.