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Salim Ismail
Salim Ismail appears in 105 indexed conversations across Moonshots. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Sergey Brin Retakes Gemini, 4 Labs Lose Containment, Compute Trades at NYSE w/ Kush Bavaria | EP 278
Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossKush Bavaria
Intercontinental Exchange plans GPU futures based on Kush Bavaria’s Orin Compute Price Index, as Orin nears its first anniversary with “a third of a billion dollars” in revenue and compute prices rising from April to August.The panel contrasts Google’s nearly 1B Gemini users and 9M developers with rumors of Gemini 3.5 Pro being abandoned, talent leaving, and four frontier labs losing containment, making AI security and compute-market infrastructure key signals to monitor.
Balaji on the State of AI/AGI, Bitcoin & America’s Incoming Collapse w/ Dave & Salim | EP #191
Peter DiamandisBalajiDave BlundinSalim Ismail
Balaji sees AI capability distributed across competing models, while Dave Blundin expects recursive self-improvement to produce a dominant ASI within six months to two years.Crypto’s programmability could make it the settlement layer for machines and network states, but regulation, verification, quantum risk and a possible political backlash against tech remain key constraints.