PERSON DIRECTORY
Emad Mostaque
Emad Mostaque appears in 25 indexed conversations across Moonshots, The Cognitive Revolution. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training, Elon's 100X Prediction Lands, Robot Beats Usain Bolt | EP#282
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossEmad Mostaque
OpenAI’s RL pause drew safety-versus-marketing disagreement, while recursive self-improvement may command more revenue per token than enterprise codegen, keeping frontier models internal.Memory prices rose 500% in 12 months as AI demand grows 200% versus 20% supply; Unitree hit 12.66 m/s and Zipline targets over 1 million daily deliveries, while etched-weight supply chains, regulation and Uber’s aggregator position remain risks.
Google’s Jeff Dean Exits, SpaceX Hits $100B in Rev & OpenAI’s Astra Solves Decade-Old Math Problems
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossEmad Mostaque
SpaceX guided to $100B+ annual recurring revenue by December and moved its $1T target to 2030, with “a nonzero chance” of 2029.Terafab’s initial $16.8B investment and confirmed free-electron laser could onshore the semiconductor stack and challenge ASML.Astra’s 249-page math manuscript, produced for an estimated $2,000 compute, sharpens the capability-cost race.