Sonnet 5 Drops, Fable 5 Will Return & Fusion's First Plant Gets Licensed w/ Philip Johnston | #268

**Dave Blundin** (0:00)
It's pretty clear that Sonnet 5 now is a way to kind of fill this gap until Fable 5 is back out. A kind of mediocre capability at a high price point, but people will still need to buy it.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:10)
Anthropix flagship model, Fable 5, has been offline for 15 days because the US government pulled it. Now Axios reports it may be back within days.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:18)
Historians will look back and say, this period in time marked the period towards the middle or the end game of recursive self-improvement.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:27)
Helion cleared the required Washington State Regulatory Approvals for its Orion Fusion power plant. It looks like Fusion is finally here.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:38)
If you were watching the right metric or the right figure of merit over the long term, you could predict when this is going to happen and it's imminent.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:45)
All right, mates, let's jump into data centers and space. And for that, we're pleased to bring a friend on.

**Philip Johnston** (0:52)
Thanks so much for having me. It's a huge honor. I've been a long time fan.

**Dave Blundin** (0:58)
Now, that's a Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:03)
Welcome back to Moonshots, everyone. Your front row seat to the coming Singularity in the Age of Abundance. I'm here with my magnificent Moonshot mates, Dave Blundin, our managing partner of Link Exponential Ventures, the number one funder of MIT and Harvard AI Startups. Salim Ismail, our global trotter, our CEO of OpenExO, and, of course, AWG, our in-house ASI.
I'm Peter Diamandis, your host and your abundance evangelist. Gentlemen, good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are. So, where's Waldo today, Salim? Where on the planet are you and where have you been?

**Salim Ismail** (1:38)
We dropped our son off at a camp in San Sebastián in Spain or near there, and I'm in Biarritz right now for a few days.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:48)
Okay, and you were like in Germany before that.

**Salim Ismail** (1:51)
I mean, I've been in five countries in the last three days. It's really been nuts.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:57)
Of course, of course. And Alex, all well with you?

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (2:00)
Yeah, I'm GDP maxing or doing my best. Always be GDP maxing.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:04)
I'm happiness maxing, you know, gratitude maxing. And Dave, good to see you.

**Dave Blundin** (2:09)
I am at Link Studio. And just for word for the wise, we have a ton of Northeastern and Princeton activity in addition to MIT and Harvard. That's true.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:17)
Of course.

**Dave Blundin** (2:18)
Yeah, we had Tech Trek is killing it out in San Francisco. Liputan, Andrew Feldman, the number two guy at Nvidia, they were all there on Friday talking to the troops. So it's really rolling.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:31)
Amazing.

**Dave Blundin** (2:32)
This is the thing we did with Eric Schmidt and Eric Brunielson and Daniela Ruse.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:36)
So today we're going to cover a bunch of new stories. We're going to catch up on robotics, energy data centers. We've got 20 stories across six fronts.
A lot's happening and a lot of capital is flowing. For those of you joining us for the first time, our mission here at Moonshots is to keep you informed, keep you optimistic about the future that we're creating. All right, let's jump in. I have three stories I want to hit on the abundance front.

**Salim Ismail** (2:59)
Wait, I just got to make a quick point. To everybody watching, if you've not seen the last episode with Eamon, I'm about three quarters of the way because it's an hour and we're trying to keep up with our own episodes when I miss one. And it was ridiculously amazing.
So just to comment there.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:14)
Yeah, and Eamon's made some great releases in the last 48 hours on his latest model combinations. All right, I'm just going to open our first story on robotics. But before we do, because I want to talk about the predictions of how many robots we're going to have on planet Earth. I was having a conversation with a dear friend, Ramez Nam today. Ramez is one of the earliest Singularity University faculty members and futurists. He's extraordinary and he shared this chart with me guys that I'd love to discuss. It's a look at how experts consistently underestimate exponential growth. So in this chart on the left here, we see new solar growth in solar and that yellow exponential line is the actual growth in solar. It's been growing at an extraordinary rate and what we see on these departures that go horizontal are the predictions that the experts make every year showing linear or just small incremental amount of growth and over and over again they underestimate it.