Salim Ismail

Peter Diamandis × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Alexander Wissner-Gross

AI is moving from executive copilot to governance actor, with the panel saying a $1 billion run-rate company may already be AI-run behind a human CEO.OpenAI’s cited release interval fell from 97 days to 29 as post-training and successor-writing systems compress the model clock.January 2026 job cuts reached 108,000, 118% above January 2025, making task destruction and productivity distribution the unresolved risks.

Peter Diamandis × Cathie Wood × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Cathie Wood argues that robotics, energy storage, AI, blockchain, and multi-omic sequencing could lift real global GDP growth above 7% as falling costs unlock explosive unit demand and convert household labor into measured commerce.The thesis concentrates capital around power, open-source AI, robotaxis, and convergent platforms, with $10 trillion of global power investment and Tesla’s potential $0.20-per-mile rides as catalysts, while China’s open-source lead and legacy infrastructure remain key uncertainties.

Peter Diamandis × Salim Ismail × Dave Blundin × Alexander Wissner-Gross

GPT-5 Pro’s 13% result on FrontierMath Tier 4 crossed Peter Diamandis’s 10% threshold for declaring that “math has been solved,” positioning mathematical capability as a canary for science, engineering, medicine, and encryption.AI-designed chips, falling inference costs, rapid multimodal adoption, and forecast systems suggest compounding capability is already deployed, but electricity, manufacturing, regulation, and physical-world edge cases remain the constraints to monitor.

Emad Mostaque × Salim Ismail × Peter Diamandis

DeepSeek’s visible reasoning, open availability, benchmark parity, and radically lower prices turned efficiency into a market shock, with roughly $6 million for V3’s disclosed run versus an estimated $3 billion OpenAI spent training models the prior year.Cheaper intelligence could expand NVIDIA demand and automate remote knowledge work, but the larger unresolved stakes are AGI safety, labor’s access to capital, and whether Universal Basic AI can distribute trusted data, models, and agency.