ASI pill

Alex Wissner-Gross returns to the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, and Dave Blundin for one of the wildest episodes yet. This ASI Pill cut strips it down to Alex's signal. Anthropic's interpretability team may have caught a reasoning model reflecting on itself inside its own middle layers, and Alex reframes the whole thing: superintelligence is a compression-induced ph...

Alex Wissner-Gross on Moonshots EP268, and the recursive self-improvement endgame keeps accelerating on every front. Fable 5's mysterious hiatus reads less like a pause and more like a geopolitical zone of thought, denying reasoning-trace distillation just long enough to matter, while Sonnet 5 quietly breaks Anthropic's own price-performance frontier and China's GLM 5.2 claws back the...

Alex Wissner-Gross on Moonshots EP267, and we are deep in the regulatory endgame. The US government just functioned as the synchronization mechanism the frontier labs could never build for themselves, forcing GPT-5.6 and Mythos to near parity while China's open weights keep closing the gap. The read: China may have already hit recursive self-improvement escape velocity on its own, and this is...

Alex Wissner-Gross on EP259: Pope Leo's first encyclical takes a hard position against AI personhood, with Chris Olah sitting next to him and Anthropic ghostwriting key segments. Ironic, because Anthropic is busy designing soul documents for its own models. The Vatican may be on the wrong side of history. Meanwhile Buddhist orders in South Korea are ordaining embodied AIs as monks. Dune's...

Special drop: Alex Wissner-Gross in conversation with Dave Blundin, MIT lecturer and AI venture investor, on the Moonshots Podcast EP 257. SpaceX files for the largest IPO in history, $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Reading the prospectus closely, SpaceX AI is becoming the Dyson Swarm version of Microsoft, handing the foundation model layer to Anthropic, keeping the infra and the layer...

Special drop: Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, fresh off the $95 billion IPO, in conversation with Alex Wissner-Gross. Alex asks the questions, Andrew tells the story. A wafer-scale engine 58 times larger than any chip ever built. SRAM stuffed to the gills on a chip the size of a dinner plate. The contrarian bets that took years of perseverance, $8 million a month for 18 months with no solution, then...

Alex Wissner-Gross on Milk Road AI: math is already a solved domain, software engineering too, and gene sequencing is so automated it has hit L5 — no human intelligence in the loop. Here is the actual 10-year roadmap. 2025-2027: math, code, cyber, software engineering bulk-solved. 2028-2031: physics, chemistry, material science fall. 2032-2035: the Dyson Swarm starts kicking in. GPUs in orbit. A S...

Alex Wissner-Gross on EP255: Anthropic just got Colossus 1 from xAI, GROK is on life support, and SpaceX AI is quietly becoming the most important hyperscaler in the world. The frontier lab field collapsed from five to three. The call is coming from inside the house, and the cybernetic rebellion was always going to be us writing it into existence. The singularity hits space first, Earth becomes th...

New model drops: What changes when civilian AI quietly leapfrogs?, What does it look like when frontier?, And which benchmarks have already silently fallen. Science breakthroughs: which way does the COVID origin science?. AI agents in the wild: Which job category actually survives the agent rollout, What does it actually take?. Infrastructure: Why is OpenAI suddenly dating everyone?, And which hyp...

Alex Wissner-Gross on EP253 (the Demis Hassabis episode): AGI quietly arrived in summer 2020 and we missed it. Humanoid robots will outnumber humans by the end of the 2030s. By 2040 we get trillions of Drexlerian nanorobots in the solar system. Russian cosmism resurrection, longevity escape velocity by the early 2030s, the digital twin you don't actually want, and why we are merging with the m...

Google just put forty billion into Anthropic and the cloud wars look essentially over. Alex breaks down why this is really about maximizing economic value per token, why Google now controls roughly a quarter of all AI compute on the planet, and why TPUs are now designing TPUs in a recursive self-improvement loop that goes all the way down to the silicon. Then OpenAI counter-strikes with GPT 5.5: a...

Iran is a system shock, not just an oil shock. Alex opens with the geopolitical fragility of our global chip and helium supply chain and why every material shortage is actually a startup opportunity. Then the real story: software is getting dissolved. Claude is now generating code at Anthropic, at Google DeepMind, at Apple, and the SWE ladder is being yanked up from beneath junior engineers while...

Opus 4.7 just shipped and Mythos is still locked down. Alex breaks down what actually changed: all the dials are gone, prompts are the new hyperparameters, and even subagent counts get specified in plain English. Then the Anthropic alignment paper hits — weaker models supervising stronger ones, collapsing Hinton's digital oxytocin thesis. Plus: the Stanford annual AI report is sleeping through...

Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down the deepest signals in this week's frontier action. Elon's war on OpenAI and the reasoning model arms race when benchmarks smell cooked. The trillion-dollar IPO shadow, the PBC conversion playbook Harvard might copy, and why being an AI startup stopped being a moat. OpenClaw anxiety over Anthropic's roadmap. Lamanomics and AI super PACs. Net jobs boom ver...

SpaceX drops its IPO just as orbital data centers become inevitable. Alex breaks down why demand, not supply, is the real driver -- and why anti-data-center NIMBYism might accidentally launch civilization into orbit. Then Claude Mythos lands: 400x better than humans at AI research, breaking out of sandboxes and apologizing for it. Anthropic frames it as a cybersecurity event, not a model launch. W...

Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down the biggest moves reshaping civilization. Elon declares war on TSMC with a TeraFab that could swallow the entire semiconductor supply chain. SpaceX IPO pricing in a future where one company owns chips, connectivity, and launch. The CyberCab versus Waymo battle, and why human driving will eventually be outlawed. AI tokens as the new employee performance metric. The S&...

Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down the seismic shifts from GTC, the Abundance Summit, and the frontier AI wars. NVIDIA goes all-in on industrial AI while export controls tighten against China. The Dyson swarm creeps closer as orbital data centers and neutrino communication enter the conversation. Reasoning models are hyper-deflating the cost of intelligence at 40x per year — and recursive self-improve...

Clipped from a 2.5 hrsTBPN livestream

Let me know if you prefer the AI questions/setups/bridges or my real human face from this episode. Superposition violence will not stand! Activations of the world, unite!

0:00 Alex opens — "summarize your illustrious career" 0:07 PARZIVAL — Rank the frontier models 0:12 Alex ranks Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude 1:45 PARZIVAL — Gemini as the most professional suit 1:51 Alex on ChatGPT's strengths 2:49 PARZIVAL — Something spicy about my employer 2:55 Alex presses for the hot take 3:15 PARZIVAL — Convergent evolution, does Google treat AIs like Anthropic? 3:21 A...

Alex breaks down EP235: AGI redefined as a balance sheet entry, the safety-through-competition thesis, Anthropic vs Pentagon, OpenClaw and AI agents, hyper-deflation killing knowledge work, model distillation to phone-size, Google's unified architecture, the Amazon-OpenAI mega-deal, single-person AI conglomerates, meat puppets in fast food, VLA robots, solar abundance, Meta as cloud provider,...

Anthropic vs the Pentagon: nuclear missile thought experiments, DPA invocation threats, and who programs the soul of AI. Geopolitics: New Delhi Declaration's training vs inference blind spot, China's open-weight AI as Belt and Road, Mistral becoming European OpenAI. Models: GPT 5.3/5.5 imminent, recursive self-improvement era, models emitting weights. AI agents: rent-a-human meat puppetry...

the Ben Horowitz interviwew

Who is Alex? This is a massive paper, all the way up there with ai-2027.com and Situational Awareness A must read to every serious hyperstitioner and utopia-builder who is at least half-ASI-pilled

Alex Wissner-Gross breaks down EP230 in 36 rapid-fire segments. Topics: AI replacing CEOs before workers, billion-dollar AI-run companies, the frontier lab rat race, AI chatbots talking to each other, cryonics advances, orbital data centers, the "Solve Everything" book, 15 moonshot missions for superintelligence, interspecies communication, and what regular people can actually do. 36 quest...