OpenAI says it is pausing frontier training. Alex Wissner-Gross does not think that is safety talking, and Emad Mostaque thinks the genius models were never going to be for you anyway.
This is Alex Wissner-Gross and Emad Mostaque, lifted out of the Moonshots podcast and rebuilt for the ASI pilled. Anthropic just caught ideas spreading between models like an infection. Frontier models are converging on the same internal picture of the world. Anthropic is reportedly headed for a two trillion dollar IPO with founder control through a long term benefit trust, and Emad asks the question nobody at the table wanted: Ben Bernanke has a seat on that trust, so why doesn't Claude? Plus memory overtaking compute as the real bottleneck, a Unitree humanoid outrunning Usain Bolt, the first phase three win for a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, and why Alex thinks medicine is cooked.
All credit to the Moonshots Podcast with Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alex Wissner-Gross, with guest Emad Mostaque, founder of Intelligent Internet. Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaJH0D2FKN8
The ASI Pill is for those who take the exponential seriously and follow it all the way to its conclusions. Short timelines. ASI before 2030.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:16 Pausing is the new marketing
1:20 Models for me, not for thee
3:42 Revenue per token maxing
5:13 Specialized models, 100x cheaper
6:30 Specialization is just sparsification
8:03 Trained from a common reality
11:09 Battery farming the AIs
13:26 Mind viruses jump between models
14:44 The human memome project
16:35 Why doesn't Claude have a seat
17:36 Anthropic's fig leaf, Moloch wins
19:47 Curing disease is the business model
21:41 Regulatory capture vs open weights
23:30 Memory is the real bottleneck
27:15 World knowledge beats personal data
27:49 Unitree's leg-maxed robot
30:03 Superhuman robots get banned
31:50 Nanorobots made of fat
34:28 Medicine is cooked
36:09 AI already beats the brain
