What Salim Ismail has said about Project Meridian
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 3, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Project Meridian once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail argues the Pentagon's main challenge is absorbing exponential technologies through slow procurement processes.
“Like you can't find exponential technology with linear procurement”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299 (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 2:04:18
Episodes
Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
Others on Project Meridian
- Richard Socher · 1 quote
Salim Ismail on other topics
- Decision models · 1 quote
- Artificial general intelligence · 1 quote
- AI alignment · 1 quote
- AI existential risk · 1 quote
- Training data quality in machine learning · 1 quote