# Alexander Wissner-Gross

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/alexander-wissner-gross/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Alexander Wissner-Gross (Founder & chief scientist, Physical Superintelligence) talking, from an interview on Moonshots published Oct 15, 2026.

- Role: Founder & chief scientist, Physical Superintelligence
- On X: https://x.com/alexwg

## What Alexander Wissner-Gross said

- [Math is bulk-solved first because it is easiest to verify](https://realalpha.app/s/math-is-bulk-solved-first-because-it-is-easiest-to-verify/)
  Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min
  > “It simply hit math first because math is easiest to verify. It's going to hit all of science. It's going to hit all of engineering, all of medicine” — Alexander Wissner-Gross · [42:51](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=2571)
- [In-silico cures for 5,000 diseases may arrive in 2 to 3 years](https://realalpha.app/s/in-silico-cures-for-5-000-diseases-may-arrive-in-2-to-3/)
  Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min
  > “I think we're going to see that in the next two to three years maximum.” — Alexander Wissner-Gross · [57:49](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=3469)
- [Curing disease is a path-planning search problem, not a mystery](https://realalpha.app/s/curing-disease-is-a-path-planning-search-problem-not-a/)
  Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min
  > “I just want to like Google Maps my way from A to B through intervention space.” — Alexander Wissner-Gross · [1:10:04](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=4204)

## The episode

- [OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, & Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/) · Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026