Astro Teller

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540 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · Google X's Astro Teller: Why the Biggest Breakthroughs Start with Failure | EP167 · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

That is so slow that the entire field of strain engineering and trying to make these things better so that humanity can move to biology being the main way that we manufacture the raw materials, at least in our lives, is completely bottlenecked around this issue of wait and see what happens.

X has spent the last eight and a half years

building a simulator for small cell biology and how it acts in its medium.

How much food is there?

What's the pH?

What's the pressure?

What's the temperature?

And then when you reprogram it, what is it actually gonna do?

How will it self-replicate?

How much of the stuff you actually want?

Will it burp out?

And so we're now, this is working well enough, it's called Alife, that we're now offering this to manufacturers around the world who make

whether it's MSG or human milk sugar for baby formula, cosmetics material, and saying, you give us your current yeast or E. coli or whatever, and we'll tell you a reprogramming that's wildly better.

And all we want, you don't have to pay us almost anything up front, just give us 30% of the upside.

I'm like, well, that's a pretty good deal, because if you don't succeed, cool.

And then we're routinely making these things two to 10 times more efficient, which is then opening up whole new fields for them when those prices are coming down in those ways.

Again, I got through that whole thing without saying artificial intelligence, but obviously this process is like a tight loop between wet labs for biology and artificial intelligence.

So I've used these as examples.

I hope your listeners can take away from this that the world feels topsy-turvy right now, but wouldn't that be incredible?

If some of the very things that are making the world feel topsy-turvy right now could also bring us these sort of supercharging elements that make our lives radically better.

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