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DB Dave Blundin Dave Blundin Venture investor and serial entrepreneur, managing partner at Link Ventures and chairman of Cogo Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“We were talking to Brett Adcock yesterday. These next training runs, including his, are billion-dollar investments in a single training run. And the result of it is a parameter file that fits on the thumb drive. There's never been an espionage opportunity that's as leveraged as that.”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026

“We were talking to Brett Adcock yesterday. These next training runs, including his, are billion-dollar investments in a single training run. And the result of it is a parameter file that fits on the thumb drive. There's never been an espionage opportunity that's as leveraged as that.” — Dave Blundin, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Context

The panel was discussing the NVIDIA/Megaspeed story and how efforts to keep Western compute inside a US sphere of influence may be porous. Dave widens the point from chips to model weights as the real espionage target.

Transcript

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Around 01:59 into the episode
Peter Diamandis

…know, there's no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised. But, you know, the interesting point, and Alex, we've talked about this before. Just like in the Binance hack, I think it was like 10 days ago, it's the human is the weak link in the chain, right?

Salim Ismail

…one company to completely pierce the PAC silica. And then billions of dollars of GPU compute ends up in China. I think the bigger story here is maybe less about the failures or foibles of one man and more about PAX silica apparently being far more porous and fallible than some would otherwise hope.

Dave Blundin

Well, not just that, Alex. I mean, like, we were talking to Brett Adcock yesterday. These next training runs, including his, are billion-dollar investments in a single training run. And the result of it is a parameter file that fits on the thumb drive. There's never been an espionage opportunity that's as leveraged as that. All that intellectual property captured. You had the other drive.

Peter Diamandis

We had the other espionage of the Saudi employee at, what was it, at OpenAI or Anthropic that opened AIDS. They put their thumb drive in the back of a TV.

Dave Blundin

Yep. Yep. No, it's going to get really serious here. Also, if the CCP actually sent somebody after Jensen, they must have sent people after the executive staff, too. So the board will have to dig into, okay, well, who else has been in contact with people that are CCP that they didn't know? Because…

Alexander Wissner-Gross

I think this is more an influence operation than an espionage operation. Like, I don't think Jensen is sneaking out blueprints. No, no, no. Yeah, I think, you know, maybe liking Chinese models a bit too much was my first kind of reaction.

Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.

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