Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

EP #267 Why the US Government Is Blocking Model Releases (GPT-5.6)

Written by Peter H. Diamandis | Jun 30, 2026 7:00:00 AM

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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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