Hardware Podcasts

Ep. 37 | Hypergiant and Colossal's Ben Lamm on Industrial AI and Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths

Moore's Lobby · 9 Nov 2021 · 47m · Episode 10

What this episode covers

Ben Lamm, founder of Hypergiant and Colossal, discusses his career integrating AI into aerospace and defense, and his current work resurrecting woolly mammoths. He explains how Hypergiant developed reconfigurable satellites and bio-reactors, while Colossal partners with geneticist George Church to engineer arctic elephants using CRISPR. Lamm details the scientific process of editing 45-60 genes to create cold-tolerant hybrids and the ecological goal of rewilding the Arctic to suppress methane. He emphasizes the importance of engineering-first teams, radical transparency, and moving AI from science experiments to production.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies and companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Hypergiant, Colossal, Accenture, NASA
Tools
CRISPR
Also
George Church, Department of Defense, Space Force, Nautilus, National Geographic

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