PERSON DIRECTORY
Dave Blundin
Dave Blundin appears in 107 indexed conversations across Moonshots. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Jared Isaacman: NASA's Moon Base by 2028, Optimus Robots on the Moon, and 15 Years to Mars | Ep #274
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossJared Isaacman
Jared Isaacman’s NASA reset centers on modular programs, reusable transport and a few near-impossible objectives, arguing that $25 billion annually can fund more progress through sharper capital allocation.A 2028 lunar landing would begin with frequent low-cost robotic failures and learning, while nuclear propulsion, autonomous science and commercial orbital data centers could determine the timeline toward returnable Mars missions.
Mira Murati's 975B Open Model, Ramin Hasani on Post-Transformer AI, and Demis' AI FINRA | EP #271
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossRamin Hasani
Frontier AI governance is becoming a contested market structure: Demis Hassabis’s industry-funded, FINRA-style watchdog could improve pre-release testing, while critics warn of regulatory capture and exclusion of open-weight competitors.Thinking Machines Lab’s 975B-parameter Inkling bets on on-prem customization, activating 41B parameters with a 1M-token context window.Liquid AI’s sub-1GB Mercedes deployment and AI²’s self-reported, independently unconfirmed claims leave deployment economics, governance, and genuine recursive capability as key watchpoints.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Claude Outpaces ChatGPT, and Consulting Gets Replaced | #234
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross
Anthropic’s enterprise-first strategy is driving 10X annual revenue growth versus OpenAI’s 3.4X, as companies consume reasoning tokens and agentic workflows at a pace consumers have resisted.The Pentagon dispute puts $200 million of government business against Anthropic’s refusal to permit unrestricted mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, showing frontier-model governance has become a procurement and national-security issue.India is emerging as an AI-neutral battleground, with $250 billion of announced commitments and Google’s $15 billion full-stack hub, while local inference may expand without decentralizing frontier-model training.


