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

- Show: [Moore's Lobby](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby)
- Published: 2021-11-09
- Length: 47m
- Episode: 10
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly
- Listen: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/podcast/ep-37-ben-lamm-hypergiant-colossal-industrial-ai-resurrecting-wooly-mammoths

## Summary

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.

## Chapters

- [0:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=1) Introduction: Ben Lamm's career and curiosity
- [3:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=186) Hypergiant's AI projects: Bio-reactors and satellites
- [6:41](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=401) Hypergiant's reconfigurable satellites and HUDs
- [13:37](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=817) AI in production vs. science experiments
- [17:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=1038) Founding Colossal and partnering with George Church
- [20:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=1201) Jurassic Park, transparency, and species preservation
- [24:47](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=1487) The science of the functional mammoth and Arctic rewilding
- [33:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=2010) CRISPR editing and the mammoth recipe
- [38:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=2298) Building engineering-first teams and dream teams
- [41:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/moores-lobby/2021-11-09-ep-37-hypergiant-and-colossals-ben-lamm-on-industrial-ai-and-resurrecting-woolly#t=2488) Nautilus magazine and founder wellbeing

## Topics

- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Medical & health devices](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/medical-devices)
- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)
- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [Microcontrollers & dev platforms](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/microcontrollers-and-platforms)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies, companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Hypergiant (company)
- Colossal (company)
- George Church (other)
- Accenture (company)
- NASA (company)
- Department of Defense (other)
- Space Force (other)
- CRISPR (tool)
- Nautilus (other)
- National Geographic (other)

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- [HIBT Lab! Wildtype: Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2022-06-02-hibt-lab-wildtype-arye-elfenbein-and-justin-kolbeck) (How I Built This)
- [104. Recapping 2022](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-next-byte-podcast/2023-01-10-104-recapping-2022) (The Next Byte Podcast)

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