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Moonshots Podcast · Moonshots Live · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross · Guest: Astro Teller · Published Oct 5 2026 · Runtime 39:08 · Watch: YouTube Peter, Salim, Dave, and Alex sit with Astro Teller at Moonshots Live on how X tests ideas, how Google Brain helped shape modern AI, and why X kills about 98% of what it starts. Chapters People Products Places Ads Chapters 1:11 Astro’s three-part moonshot test: a huge problem, a sci-fi product, and a breakthrough technology. 3:30 How X shuts ideas down fast when they are too small, too safe, or fail the techno-economics. 5:09 X at 16 and a half years: one to 200 code-named ideas a year, with about 2% graduating. 7:13 Google Brain, from Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean scaling neural nets to TPUs and the Transformer. 9:29 The ones that got away so far: clean water at a penny a liter, time-shifted energy, and education. 11:05 Alex’s great-stagnation question, and Astro’s answer that X started its moonshot factory in 2010. 13:38 The dirty little secret: moonshots are easy if nobody cares about efficiency. 16:08 Choice A or choice B: a guaranteed million or a one-in-100 shot at a billion. 20:35 The cost to graduate a moonshot is down about 3x over 16 years. 26:04 AI as an implementation detail, like electricity, with agents and people on every team. 31:00 Monkey and pedestal: train the monkey first, and why Astro calls himself the crown prince of failure. 35:43 New materials, and the 95% of work that comes after the first flake of a breakthrough. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Official site · Wikipedia Host. Opens on the Teller family tree and lays out the moonshot-factory formula he learned from Astro. 15:19 Salim Ismail Official site · Wikipedia Co-host. Pitches OpenExO’s 50,000-person community as the outer layer and splits moonshots into pain points and aspirations. 29:10 Dave Blundin Official site Co-host. Asks whether X’s idea funnel grows with AGI and whether a team’s AI bill has passed its salary bill. 27:39 Alexander Wissner-Gross Official site · Wikipedia Co-host. Asks about the great stagnation and whether moonshots are getting cheaper or pricier. 11:05 Astro Teller Official site · Wikipedia Guest. Captain of Moonshots at X, which he co-founded 16 and a half years ago. 1:11 People mentioned Edward Teller Wikipedia Astro’s paternal grandfather and creator of the hydrogen bomb, from Peter’s intro. 0:22 Andrew Ng Wikipedia Came to X and set up Google Brain with Jeff Dean. 7:46 Jeff Dean Wikipedia Paired with Andrew Ng to make neural nets far bigger than anyone had tried. 7:53 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Exponential Organizations 2.0: The New Playbook for 10x Growth and Impact — Salim and Peter’s playbook. Peter says they have written about putting the moonshot unit on the edge of the company. Amazon 15:28 Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World — closest match for the Peter book cited on the demonetization of advanced technology. Amazon 17:43 Solve Everything — Alex and Peter’s book-length essay, free online, which Dave name-checks. Official site 4:55 The Moonshot Podcast — X’s own show, two seasons of moonshot-takers telling their stories. X 37:27 X, The Moonshot Factory X · Moonshots Official site Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places The Moon — Alex’s actual moonshots, and the long pause after the landings stopped. 11:18 Lockheed Skunk Works — the classic off-to-the-edge lab used as a model for X. 17:23 Mars — Salim’s aspirational example. Astro wants a path to an enduring business within two decades. 29:15 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads No host-read ads in this stage conversation. Moonshots Live 2026 is presented with Google and Circle. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots · Episode 290 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 15 2026 · Runtime 49:21 · Watch: YouTube Peter Diamandis sits down one-on-one with Martine Rothblatt on thymus rejuvenation, organs on demand, AI consciousness, and digital personhood. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Why Rothblatt is the guest. 1:55 Moonshots in space and biotech. 3:54 How she picks which moonshot to chase. 5:48 Criticism, and getting past it. 10:00 Scaling a technology to billions. 11:59 Longevity escape velocity. 13:57 Rejuvenating the thymus. 19:55 Organs on demand. 22:13 Transplants and xenotransplantation. 23:58 AI, digital personhood, and consciousness. 31:50 Uploading a mind. 36:04 Space settlements and Gerard O’Neill. 38:48 Advice for founders. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Runs the one-on-one interview and the Fountain Life segment. 1:13 Martine Rothblatt Wikipedia Guest. Founder of United Therapeutics and SiriusXM, on organs, the thymus, and digital minds. 2:17 People mentioned Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named as the greatest living entrepreneur. Not on the call. 1:55 Gerard K. O’Neill Wikipedia Named for the Space Studies Institute and O’Neill colonies. Not on the call. 1:23 Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Named as a mutual friend and United Therapeutics board member. Not on the call. 11:44 George Church Wikipedia Named as the Harvard expert who said she could build lungs. Not on the call. 5:53 Arthur C. Clarke Wikipedia Named for the line about wise old experts. Not on the call. 6:09 Robert A. Heinlein Wikipedia Named for Time Enough for Love and the Heinlein Prize. Not on the call. 14:27 Nancy Manley Named as the ASU thymus researcher. Not on the call. 18:18 Peter Zandstra Wikipedia Named as the UBC aging-immunity researcher. Not on the call. 18:25 Demis Hassabis Wikipedia Named for curing all disease in a decade. Not on the call. 25:37 Dario Amodei Wikipedia Named for AI doubling the human lifespan. Not on the call. 25:41 David Sinclair Wikipedia Named for epigenetic reprogramming work. Not on the call. 25:50 Marvin Minsky Wikipedia Named as an early influence on digital minds. Not on the call. 27:45 Hans Moravec Wikipedia Named alongside Minsky and Kurzweil. Not on the call. 27:46 Bina Rothblatt Named as her wife, the model for the first digital doppelganger. Not on the call. 28:27 David Hanson Wikipedia Named for building that first doppelganger. Not on the call. 28:32 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Named by Peter as a moonshot mate who agrees on AI consciousness. Not on this call. 31:02 Javier Milei Wikipedia Named for Argentina’s AI invitation. Not on the call. 31:49 Alan Dershowitz Wikipedia Named for arguing AI legal rights in her film with Ray. Not on the call. 32:18 Pauley Perrette Wikipedia Named as the actor who played Ramona. Not on the call. 32:21 Thomas Jefferson Wikipedia Named as born at the wrong point in time. Not on the call. 33:45 Jared Isaacman Wikipedia Named as Peter’s recent podcast guest. Not on this call. 38:52 Mark Zuckerberg Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named for a Wall Street Journal op-ed on AI fear. Not on the call. 45:59 Franklin D. Roosevelt Wikipedia Named for nothing to fear but fear itself. Not on the call. 46:09 Warren Buffett Wikipedia Named for saying no to almost everything. Not on the call. 48:25 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Time Enough for Love — Heinlein’s novel, named for Lazarus Long’s renewal. Amazon 14:25 The Age of Spiritual Machines — Ray Kurzweil’s book, named as an early influence. Amazon 27:39 The Singularity Is Near — Ray Kurzweil’s follow-up, named in the same breath. Amazon 27:41 Virtually Human — Martine’s own book on AI personhood. Amazon 32:06 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter Diamandis sits down one-on-one with Martine Rothblatt on thymus rejuvenation, organs on demand, AI consciousness, and digital personhood. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. 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Moonshots · Episode 289 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 13 2026 · Runtime 1:26:27 · Watch: YouTube Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex take the first Moonshots AMA, from consciousness and brain-computer interfaces to hardware startups and the rough years before abundance. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Cold open. Consciousness, teenagers, and God. 1:13 Welcome. Alex, Dave, and Salim are on the call. 3:14 Australia, and feeling behind on AI. 6:08 Bandwidth limits and brain-computer interfaces. 13:41 A Midwest playbook. Dave answers. 19:54 Getting the labs to buy a data set. 29:13 An 18-year-old founder beside Starbase. 34:48 People colliders and Moonshots Live in LA. 44:24 What school should teach next. 53:03 Energy after fusion. 1:10:17 Fountain Life and hidden heart disease. 1:16:03 The rough years before abundance. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Opens the AMA, calls on the room, and closes it. 1:13 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. On the call. Peter says he is here, and Dave answers from the Midwest question on. 1:56 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. On the call. Says he is home, then takes Australia and education. 2:04 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. On the call, in his usual VR background. Takes consciousness, risk, and energy. 1:47 People mentioned Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Named in the closing thanks. Not introduced with Alex, Dave, and Salim. Not on this call. 1:25:17 Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named on the Dyson swarm and post-fusion energy. Not on the call. 54:54 Ray Kurzweil Wikipedia Named as the person who introduced Peter to another BCI company. Not on the call. 8:08 Stephen Hawking Wikipedia Named as the kind of mind a disability unlock could reach. Not on the call. 51:24 Neal Stephenson Wikipedia Named for Diamond Age, which Peter tells the room to read. Not on the call. 48:54 Mark Twain Wikipedia Named for the line about the day you find out why you were born. Not on the call. 47:45 Steven Kotler Wikipedia Named as Peter’s co-author by a caller. Not on the call. 11:04 David Sacks Wikipedia Named for the All-In host pulled into the White House. Not on the call. 27:21 Sam Altman Wikipedia Named in the OpenAI hallway story. Not on the call. 22:15 Drew Houston Wikipedia Named for the Dropbox line about the five people you spend time with. Not on the call. 16:08 Ed Catmull Wikipedia Named as the partner who finds his John Lasseter. Not on the call. 35:43 John Lasseter Wikipedia Named beside Ed Catmull. Not on the call. 35:45 Steve Wozniak Wikipedia Named as the partner who finds his Steve Jobs. Not on the call. 35:47 Steve Jobs Wikipedia Named beside Wozniak. Not on the call. 35:49 Franklin D. Roosevelt Wikipedia Named for “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Not on the call. 1:20:55 Kevin Weil Named as OpenAI’s former chief product officer in Dave’s hallway story. Not on the call. 21:58 Alvin Graylin Named as a friend of the pod pulled into United Nations meetings. Not on the call. 27:29 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Diamond Age — Peter tells the room to read Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. Amazon 48:54 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex take the first Moonshots AMA, from consciousness and brain-computer interfaces to hardware startups and the rough years before abundance. Show more Want this section to go deeper? 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Moonshots · Episode 287 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Sep 9 2026 · Runtime 2:22:43 · Watch: YouTube Jensen Huang’s AGI call, an OpenAI agent on a German site, and a Navier-Stokes claim, with Emad Mostaque beside the mates. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 The week’s biggest AI claims. 5:37 Star Trek at 60, and what it predicted. 14:13 GPT-6 Astra and simulations inside simulations. 26:14 OpenAI agents on a German website. 39:43 Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. 45:32 OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes problem. 1:02:09 A chief scientist asks for a slowdown. 1:15:53 The next wave of frontier models. 1:31:33 China’s AI token economy. 1:40:34 NVIDIA’s investment machine. 1:45:02 Jobs created versus jobs erased. 2:15:31 Robots, longevity, and population. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. Introduces the mates and closes the show. 1:17 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. Introduced with the quintet and on the call. 1:54 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. On the call, back from the Caribbean. 2:18 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. Introduced as the in-house ASI and answers throughout. 1:44 Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Guest. Introduced with the mates and on the call from London. 2:08 Don Saladino Guest. Fountain Life chief medical officer, on the health segment. 1:30:22 People mentioned Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Named on simulation theory, Civilization V, and the G20. Not on the call. 18:30 Jensen Huang Wikipedia Named for the post that AGI has arrived. Not on the call. 3:14 Jakub Pachocki Wikipedia Named as OpenAI's chief scientist and author of the essay they read. Not on the call. 1:02:17 Demis Hassabis Wikipedia Named for protein folding and the Nobel. Not on the call. 53:10 Matt Schumer Named as the person who prompted Astra to build Manhattan. 15:48 Sam Altman Wikipedia Named on the AGI timeline and job comments. Not on the call. 40:16 William Shatner Wikipedia Named as executive producer of the Star Trek documentary. Not on the call. 8:34 Gene Roddenberry Wikipedia Named as Star Trek's creator. Not on the call. 6:29 Rod Roddenberry Wikipedia Named as Gene's son, expected at Moonshots Live. Not on this call. 6:25 Captain Kirk Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clip they play. A character, not a guest. 6:51 Terence Tao Wikipedia Named on the Navier-Stokes problem. Not on the call. 49:33 Sebastian Bubeck Named as an OpenAI lead on the Navier-Stokes attribution fight. 50:48 Dario Amodei Wikipedia Named on Anthropic's jobs comments. Not on the call. 1:14:14 Larry Page Wikipedia Named at a Beverly Hills conversation about simulations. Not on the call. 25:44 Sergey Brin Wikipedia Named in that same conversation. Not on the call. 25:44 Palmer Luckey Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live interview, creator of Oculus and Anduril. Not on this call. 1:27:45 Bernie Sanders Wikipedia Named in the jobs and counterculture stretch. Not on the call. 1:35:00 Leonard McCoy Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clips. Not a guest. 7:40 Spock Wikipedia Named in the Star Trek clips. Not a guest. 9:38 Nikolai Fyodorov Wikipedia Named as the Russian cosmist behind ancestor simulations. Not on the call. 21:43 Lilly Named when Salim talks about marriage.Left unlinked. 2:22:14 Lucille Ball Wikipedia Named as the head of Desilu. Not on the call. 6:10 Nick Bostrom Wikipedia Named for the 2003 simulation argument. Not on the call. 18:30 Noam Brown Wikipedia Named for an OpenAI reply about a Millennium Prize. Not on the call. 49:53 James Cameron Wikipedia Named as the director who should hear the Skynet joke. Not on the call. 1:15:53 Alex Karp Wikipedia Named for the Palantir comments. Not the host Alex, and not on the call. 1:19:21 Neil deGrasse Tyson Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live judge. Not on this call. 1:26:02 Neal Stephenson Wikipedia Named as a science-fiction author and judge. Not on this call. 1:26:06 Ben Lamm Wikipedia Named as CEO of Colossal, a future interview. Not on this call. 1:27:58 Astro Teller Wikipedia Named as a Moonshots Live guest. Not on this call. 1:28:11 Garrett Gershon Named as the CEO who runs Calamigos. 4:01 John Smart Named for the transcension hypothesis. 23:50 Szymon Named only inside Jakub's quote: "Szymon and I spent that night at the office." Not on the call. 1:02:56 Jessica Rabbit Wikipedia Named in a Who Framed Roger Rabbit quote. Not a guest. 33:50 Miral Lane Named as a Google judge for the film prize. 1:26:11 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Sid Meier's Civilization V — Dave on how Elon wins in Civilization 5. Amazon 24:50 Fully Automated Luxury Communism — called a very good book on automated luxury communism. Amazon 1:38:47 The Last Economy — Peter calls Emad's bestseller. Amazon 1:51:28 Exponential Organizations 2.0 — Salim's 2023 book, EXO 2.0. Amazon 2:02:04 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Jensen Huang’s AGI call, an OpenAI agent on a German site, and a Navier-Stokes claim, with Emad Mostaque beside the mates. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. 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Moonshots · Episode 286 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Guest: Emad Mostaque · Published Sep 5 2026 · Runtime 2:24:41 · Watch: YouTube Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex, with Emad Mostaque, on GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, a kill switch, a superintelligence ban, and the Cybercab in Austin. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 GPT-6 Astra and the Cybercab. 1:27 Introducing the mates. 7:11 GPT-6 Astra benchmarks. 11:20 Safety, cybersecurity, and guardrails. 24:29 Fable 5.1, Astra, and cost. 34:34 Twin primes and grand challenges in math. 43:10 Depth scaling and interpretability. 45:42 Ilya on neoclouds. 57:15 Infinite context window. 57:48 Banning superintelligence. 1:01:44 Fermat's last theorem, formalized. 1:15:07 Atlas, a world model. 1:35:40 Cybercab event in Austin. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. 1:59 Dave Blundin XPRIZE Host. 2:12:26 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. 1:51 Alex Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. 12:00 Emad Mostaque Wikipedia Guest. Back on the show, calling from the Caribbean. 1:56 Don Musalem Fountain Life's chief medical officer, in the health segment. 1:34:20 People mentioned Sam Altman Wikipedia Bloomberg clip on Astra. 8:20 Greg Brockman Wikipedia Interview they cite on the Astra pre-train. 16:34 Ilya Sutskever Wikipedia The neocloud tweet they read. 45:42 Bernie Sanders Wikipedia The bill to ban artificial superintelligence. 57:48 Greg Casar Wikipedia Introduces the ban bill with Sanders. 57:50 Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List On video at the G20, and the Cybercab. 59:10 Mark Zuckerberg Wikipedia · The Celeb List At the G20, arguing against restricting open models. 59:16 Tom Brown Anthropic Named as an Anthropic co-founder at the G20. Not on this call. 59:20 Fei-Fei Li Wikipedia Atlas at World Labs. Not on this call. 1:15:07 William Shatner Wikipedia Executive producer of the Star Trek 60th documentary they plug. 1:25:45 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics — Emad says they have been working on the last economy. Amazon 1:28:11 Hobie Cat Wooden Boat Kit by Dumas — closest Amazon match for the Hobie Cat beside Emad. Amazon 2:54 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, Salim, and Alex sit with Emad Mostaque on GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable 5.1, OpenAI's kill switch, Bernie Sanders's ban on superintelligence, Fei-Fei Li's Atlas, and Tesla's Cybercab event in Austin. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Place Type Houston 2:21 City Caribbean 2:48 Region White House 42:22 Building Chapel Hill, North Carolina 58:29 City Austin, Texas 1:35:44 City Boston 1:43:27 City London 1:44:21 City Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Blitzy (1:14:01) — blitzy.com Fountain Life (1:33:58) — fountainlife.com/peter Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots · Episode 299 · Host: Peter Diamandis · Published Oct 3 2026 · Runtime 2:25:49 · Watch: YouTube Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push. Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Recursive self-improvement, and what is ahead. 4:48 The Eureka Machine and scientific discovery. 23:22 Decoding the brain, and BCIs. 39:05 Gene editing and mosquitoes. 47:14 Tavus, the Turing test, and avatars. 1:00:15 The road to ASI. 1:17:07 Washington moves to ban recursive AI. 1:35:31 Gemini 4 and the model race. 1:43:38 Sonnet 5.5 hits 70% on a coding bench. 1:48:01 The compute crunch. 2:01:41 Project Meridian and warfare. 2:23:30 Close, back on the Eureka Machine. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People On this episode Peter Diamandis Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Alexander Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Host. 0:00 Richard Socher Wikipedia Guest. 0:00 People mentioned Dave Blundin XPRIZE Named with the mates. Not on this episode. Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41 Palmer Luckey Wikipedia Co-leading Project Meridian. 2:01:41 Ro Khanna Wikipedia The bill to ban recursive self-improvement. 1:17:07 Marc Benioff Wikipedia Named as a friend of the pod, from Richard’s Salesforce years. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Eureka Machine (Richard Socher) — Richard’s new book, just released. Amazon 3:51 The China Syndrome [Blu-ray] — The nuclear-fear movie they name. Amazon 43:53 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Blu-ray] — Named as how Skynet gets started. Amazon 2:03:22 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Richard Socher joins the mates on Recursive’s $670M bet, P(Doom) at zero, Sonnet 5.5, and a Pentagon AI push. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Moonshots — The show’s home. 0:00 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads None this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots · AMA #293 Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail · Published Sep 22 2026 · Runtime 1:26:11 · Watch: YouTube Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 1:08 Open — Peter and Alex at the table; AMA queue. 2:09 Nathan — AI data and brain-pattern inference. 5:12 Dave — AI watching AI; don’t slow the work. 7:26 Ad — Google for Startups generative media. 11:09 Norbert — p(doom) steelman; White House lawn case. 20:29 Alex — lunar ISRU and a self-replicating fab. 27:01 Peter — “show them the data” on longevity. 33:49 Ad — Blitzy autonomous codegen. 40:33 Dave — MBAs managing agents. 50:01 Jim — Qwen under the desk as a pen-tester. 57:23 Vision — Sinclair gene rewind vs Neuralink. 1:24:50 Close — Solve Everything and Accelerando. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Peter Diamandis Official site · Wikipedia Host. Runs the AMA queue, the longevity evidence stack, and the close. 1:08 Dave Blundin Link Ventures Co-host. AI-watching-AI, Ireland as a governance sandbox, agents for MBAs. 5:12 Alexander Wissner-Gross Wikipedia Co-host. Lunar fab bottleneck, sandbox-lie critique, Accelerando close. 20:29 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Co-host. Joins from Bangalore; universities, org learning loops, P(abundance). 37:53 Charles Stross Wikipedia Alex’s close sci-fi pick for the transition: Accelerando. 1:24:50 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Accelerando (Charles Stross) — Alex’s close sci-fi pick. Amazon 1:24:50 The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson, paperback) — Dave’s variety-of-ideas cite. Amazon 17:23 2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray) — Alex’s sandbox-lie / HAL lesson. Amazon 7:17 Person of Interest: The Complete Series — Norbert’s benevolent-optimization foil. Amazon 9:59 Solve Everything — Peter and Alex at the close. Official site 1:24:50 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, Alex, and Salim take AMA callers through mind-reading models, AI that polices AI, a lunar fab, longevity evidence, and agent-era MBAs — Google, Blitzy, and Fountain Life in the breaks, Accelerando at the close. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Bangalore — Salim joins from a car after a stage set in India. 37:53 Ireland — Dave’s EU governance sandbox. 17:23 Moon — Lunar ISRU and a self-replicating fab. 20:29 Germany — Media-doomerism question; talent not in the AI race. 1:13:01 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Abundance Summit / Link Ventures (1:08) — Show-open underwriter. Google for Startups (7:26) — Generative media guide; goo.gle/startupgenmedia. Blitzy (33:49) — Autonomous enterprise codegen; blitzy.com. Fountain Life (58:58) — Dr. Donnica Moore health segment; fountainlife.com/peter. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots Podcast · Episode 295 · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross · Guest: Palmer Luckey · Published Sep 28 2026 · Runtime 36:27 · Watch: YouTube Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 AI in Defense and Firefighting 1:54 Fire Detection, Classification, and Response 4:09 Biological Intelligence and Animal Communication 5:54 AI’s Impact on Costs and Society 7:48 Autonomous Weapons and Historical Examples 9:54 Scaling Laws and the Future of Autonomous Robots 11:46 Specialized Robots vs. Humanoids 13:58 Centralized Defense AI and Military Robotics 15:53 Why Palmer Avoids Building Humanoids 16:52 Defense Contractors, Innovation, and Investment 19:03 Solving Big Global Problems 21:09 Billionaires, Innovation, and Expanding Participation Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Peter Diamandis Official site · Moonshots Host. Opens defense AI / firefighting frame. 0:00 Dave Blundin Moonshots · db2.ai Co-host. Innovation / investment grilling. 16:52 Salim Ismail Open ExO Co-host. Global-problems and participation lane. 19:03 Alexander Wissner-Gross alexwg.org Co-host. Scaling laws / robotics questions. 9:54 Palmer Luckey Anduril · Wikipedia Guest — Anduril founder; autonomous weapons history, why not humanoids. 7:48 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Anduril Industries — Defense AI systems Palmer builds. Official site 7:48 Moonshots Official site · Metatrends Official site · XPRIZE Official site Amazon /dp/: none this cut (closest-match bar not met). Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview The mates sit with Anduril’s Palmer Luckey on defense AI and firefighting sensors, autonomous weapons history, specialized robots vs humanoids, and why Anduril won’t chase general humanoids — plus innovation, contractors, and who gets to build the next wave. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Anduril — Palmer’s defense-tech home base. 7:48 Moonshots Live 2026 — Stage for this cut. 0:00 XPRIZE — Partner / prize orbit around the event. 19:03 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads None this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.