Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Salim Ismail, OpenExO founder and exponential org thinker, joins Alexander Wissner-Gross, Reified founder and computer scientist, and Dave Blundin, Link Ventures GP and deep-tech investor. They dig into Elon’s terawatt chip-factory bet, robotaxis and eVTOLs reshaping cities, AI compressing market moats, orbital compute, hidden frontier models, and even cryonics and panspermia.

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and tech investor, joins Dave Blundin, Link Ventures founder and startup builder, for a fast-moving conversation on AI reasoning, superintelligence timelines, and why power may matter more than talent. They also dig into orbital data centers, China’s robotics edge, fast learning loops, and the race to shape ASI around democratic values.

Big bets and bigger bottlenecks. The conversation races through NVIDIA’s trillion-dollar AI buildout, orbital data centers, and a possible Tesla-made challenge to TSMC. It also hits Anthropic’s enterprise surge, OpenClaw’s rapid spread, collapsing CS career paths, AI-driven scientific discovery, and even White House alien disclosure rumors.

Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO and xAI cofounder, talks recursive AI already building its successors. He maps out Optimus 3 and its manufacturing ramp. He predicts a 10x economy, moon infrastructure, and people on Mars. The conversation also touches on universal income, extreme deflation, the singularity, longevity, and even miniature woolly mammoths.

A live panel races through AI’s wildest turns: GPT 5.4 tackling harder math, Meta’s Moltbook move, and agents becoming their own economy. They also touch on home robots, autonomous transport, Apple’s local AI potential, eye-scanning identity tech, fruit fly brain emulation, and the massive energy buildout needed to power it all.

Alex Finn, founder of Creator Buddy and an AI builder known for practical agent workflows, breaks down OpenClaw and the rise of always-on local AI. He explores why Mac Minis are becoming personal supercomputers, how teams of AI "employees" can share memory and tasks, the security risks of autonomous systems, and how agent-run businesses could reshape work fast.

Andrew Yang, founder of the Forward Party and Humanity Forward, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate. He tackles AI-driven job loss and whether universal basic income should come before universal high income. Short timelines for policy action, the end of white‑collar career pathways, and bold political fixes are debated in rapid-fire conversation.

Livestream the Abundance Summit: https://www.abundance360.com/livestream In this WTF episode, the hosts unpack AI's supersonic tsunami - from Amazon's $35B AGI bet on OpenAI, Anthropic ditching safety pauses amid race pressures, and hyper-efficient Chinese models shrinking to iPhones - to meat puppets at Burger King and Pulsia autonomously running 1,000+ companies. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding      Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: www.fountainlife.com/peter  _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO  Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack  Spotify Threads Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on March 3rd, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fast-paced dive into an AI showdown between Anthropic and military oversight, and the geopolitical tug-of-war shaping AI sovereignty. They highlight agentic tools that replace human checkpoints, rapid recursive model jumps, and why agents monetize in enterprise settings. Conversations also touch on cybersecurity upheaval, meat-puppet human actuators, and hardware races transforming computing and biotech.

Mackenzie Price, CEO of Alpha Schools, builds a two-hour mastery K–12 model and AI TimeBack platform. Joe Lamont, education principal and scaling operator, applies systems playbooks to schooling. They discuss AI tutors, accelerated two-hour academics, life-skills workshops, personalized avatars, vision models for focus, and redesigning adult roles to coach rather than lecture.