Moonshots with Peter Diamandis US vs. China: Why Trust Will Win the AI Race | GPT-5.2 & Anthropic IPO w/ Emad Mostaque, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #214
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Dec 9, 2025 
In this engaging discussion, AI experts Emad Mostaque, founder of Intelligent Internet, and Alexander Wissner-Gross, a computer scientist from Reified, explore the competitive dynamics between the U.S. and China in AI technology. They delve into the anticipated capabilities of GPT-5.2 and the factors influencing Anthropic's potential IPO. Salim Ismail shares insights on how trust will dictate AI adoption, while Dave Blundin highlights the booming demand for AI education and related job opportunities in sectors like data center construction.
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NeurIPS Reveals The Global AI Pulse
- NeurIPS is the annual pulse-check where frontier labs, academia, and industry converge to reveal AI's direction.
- Alex Wissner-Gross observed frontier labs largely went dark and Chinese labs filled the publication gap with open-weight models.
Context Window Is A Core Bottleneck
- Breaking context-window limits is a major architectural frontier that unlocks vastly larger reasoning.
- Alex and others argue scaling context to millions or billions of tokens will be a core advance toward AGI.
The Continuous Leapfrogging Race
- The model race is accelerating into near-weekly leapfrogging among frontier labs, driven by massive capital and talent wars.
- Peter Diamandis and Alex framed it as a continuous rat race with safety potentially sidelined.
