Urgent Update- AI Sputnik Moment: Kimi K3 Released w/ Emad Mostaque | Ep. 272

**Peter Diamandis** (0:00)
Today, we put out the bat signal and called for an emergency pod because America just experienced an AI Sputnik moment. Kimi K3 released yesterday, shocking the AI world with the largest open weight model ever, and it went straight to number one. This week, they didn't just close the gap, they jumped the fence.

**Emad Mostaque** (0:17)
Kimi has always been a model that felt a bit different. That's why it was always top of the writing benchmarks, for example. K3 is actually a multimodal model, so it can have all sorts of inputs and it can understand things, which is one of the reasons it's so good at front end.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:31)
Now, it's a free-for-all between Meta and SpaceX AI on the American side, and now China and Moonshot number three on that Pareto optimal frontier.

**Salim Ismail** (0:41)
Frontier intelligence is now a totally perishable asset.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:45)
What are the American frontier labs spending their money on?

**Peter Diamandis** (0:48)
I think the US government starts a strategy of constraining, in some fashion, Chinese up-weight models from being used in the US.

**Salim Ismail** (0:56)
We've had this bunch of people in the internet world that information wants to be free. Basically, intelligence also wants to be free.

**Dave Blundin** (1:01)
All we need now is some kind of a global... Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:11)
Welcome to Moonshots, everyone, the number one podcast in all things AI and exponential, your front row seat to the coming singularity. Maybe I should say to the singularity, which is now...

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (1:21)
To the present singularity.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:22)
To the present, to the continuous singularity.
Today, we put out the bat signal and called for an emergency pod because America just experienced an AI Sputnik moment. But more on that in just a moment. Allow me to welcome my magnificent Moonshot mates. We have the full quintet with us here today. Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail and Emad Mostaque. I'm Peter Diamandis, your host and abundance provocateur. If your head is spinning at the pace of the singularity, good, mine is too. And that's the point.
Our mission here at Moonshots is to keep you informed, keep you up to speed on exactly what's happening, most importantly, keep you optimistic with the extraordinary pace of change, the coming age of abundance. Gentlemen, welcome. Thanks for getting up early, wherever you might be, or Emad in your case, in the afternoon. I was up at 4 a.m. this morning, the benefits of jet lag, but I could have used another hour of sleep.

**Dave Blundin** (2:17)
And I'm not as good of a person as Peter Diamandis, so. Yeah.

**Emad Mostaque** (2:21)
What about your PNCF stuff?

**Peter Diamandis** (2:23)
Yeah, no, I've got a workout scheduled right after this. A lot happening, gentlemen. A lot going on, and I appreciate everybody's time here. You know, before we get started, I want to personally say thank you to all our subscribers and our viewers. You know, I've had a chance, I don't know if you guys did recently, to watch and read the YouTube chat. And all I can say is we love you guys too. You know, our mission here is delivering the news.
And we spent an ungodly amount of time reviewing, you know, Salim and Alex and Emad, I got your text this morning. Let's add this, let's add that.
So, so much going on.

**Dave Blundin** (3:02)
I got to say also, all the memes of Alex, all the memes of Alex explaining JSpace are awesome. So keep, keep memeing Alex every time you can.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:10)
Yeah, for sure. And some great appreciation.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:13)
Figure out, see if you can figure out my JSpace.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:15)
Yeah, well, can we look inside?

**Dave Blundin** (3:18)
When you're here, we'll be able to see.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:21)
Yeah, we're going to get a readout. And Salim, a lot of love for you on the comments as well.

**Salim Ismail** (3:29)
There's some wonderful people out there. You know what's incredible is most YouTube videos are just a kind of a flame-throwing festival. And ours are completely the opposite. It's really amazing. So kudos to you, Peter.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:42)
Well, no, I just, again, just absolute gratitude. And I appreciate the fact that everyone, all of our subscribers and viewers here take the time to listen to the pod. And you know, we're constantly we spend so much time with our entire team and the entire Moonshot mates here just really trying to assess what's going on and deliver it. And we have these emergency pods. So if you haven't subscribed and turned on notifications, please do.