Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
Why the US Government Is Blocking Model Releases (GPT-5.6) | #267
2 hour 18 minutes Posted Jun 29, 2026 at 8:23 pm.
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This episode is mainly about the U.S. government putting frontier AI behind a gate, China’s accelerating open-weight and distillation pressure, and a new push into quantum and photonic computing.
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