What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about AI compute and power shortage

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 21, 2026

Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI compute and power shortage once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Wissner-Gross expects distillation and recursive self-improvement to produce far more capable models with much smaller energy footprints.
“I would expect that we will have models that take a fraction of the current energy footprint and generate many orders of magnitude better capabilities”
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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 21, 2026 · 2 h 2 min
Chamath Palihapitiya joins the Moonshots hosts to discuss Anthropic's public benefit fund, Elon Musk's SpaceX share gift, AI compute shortages, power, Bitcoin, and investing.