Anthropic Partners With SpaceX AI, Leopold’s $5.5B Bet, and the Singularity Economy – Moonshots EP 255

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Episode #255 · Host: Peter H. Diamandis · With: Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross · Published May 16 2026 · Runtime 2:10:51 · Watch: YouTube

Peter Diamandis and the Moonshot Mates dig into Anthropic’s 80x growth and compute crunch, its Akamai and SpaceX compute deals, Claude’s misalignment evals, OpenAI’s new audio models, the Hermes agent topping OpenRouter, Claude for legal and small business, Elon’s Terafab chip factory, Google and SpaceX orbital data centers, the singularity economy, the first US UAP file releases, and an AMA.

Chapters
  • 0:00 Introduction: the Singularity and AI Demand.
  • 4:20 Anthropic Hits 80x Growth And Runs Out of Compute Capacity.
  • 12:15 Anthropic Buying Compute: Akamai Deal & SpaceX Partnership.
  • 29:50 Claude Scores Perfect on Misalignment Eval Since Haiku 4.5.
  • 40:00 OpenAI Releases New Audio Models: RealTime-2, Translate & Whisper.
  • 52:30 Hermes Agent Surpasses OpenClaw as #1 in Open Router Token Ranking.
  • 56:40 Claude for Legal Industry & Small Businesses.
  • 1:06:45 Elon’s Terafab Chip Factory Could Cost Up to $119B.
  • 1:10:30 Google & SpaceX in Talks for Suncatcher Orbital Centers.
  • 1:19:40 The Singularity Economy.
  • 1:31:40 US Government Begins First Ever UFO/UAP File Releases.
  • 1:48:40 AMA Session with the Mates.
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On this episode

Peter H. Diamandis

Host. Founder of XPRIZE and Singularity University. 0:00

Salim Ismail

Founder of OpenExO. 0:00

Dave Blundin

Founder and GP of Link Ventures. 0:00

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Computer scientist. 0:00


People mentioned

Leopold Aschenbrenner

His $5.5B bet. 0:00

Elon Musk

Terafab and SpaceX. 1:06:45

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Claude (Anthropic) — the growth and evals segments. Official site 4:20

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