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Peter Diamandis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1798 total appearances

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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

There was a guy behind the ticket counter, he was stapling things together, and I'm like, whoa, how retro.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Oh, my God.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

So, Salim, any comments on the Pentagon signing with the Frontier Labs here?

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Yeah, it is going to be crazy.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

All right, let's continue on the Google stories here.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

So Google has crushed their earnings.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Alphabet reported $109.9 billion.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

I would be happy with just the $0.9 billion in revenue.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

You know, 22% year-on-year growth, $62.6 billion in profit.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Google Cloud hit $20 billion revenue with 63% growth, outpacing both AWS and Azure.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

AI drove results across the entire Google ecosystem.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Interestingly enough, Google now has 3 quarters of a billion monthly active users.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Dave, let's go to you for this.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

What are your thoughts?

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Sure, DeepMind for sure.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

I remember I met, you know, Chad Hurley, who had sold YouTube for $1.65 billion.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

And interestingly enough, I don't know if people know this story, but YouTube

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

actually Google already had Google Video, but YouTube was scaling faster because it had no lawyers and had no restrictions on what you could post.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

And they were scaling so rapidly that Google had no choice but to buy them.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Alex, something you just said was really...