Anthropic Partners With SpaceX AI, Leopold's $5.5B Bet, and the Singularity Economy | EP #255

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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This episode is a dense AI-and-abundance conversation about Anthropic’s explosive growth, compute shortages, SpaceX becoming a hyperscaler, Google’s orbital data-center ambitions, OpenAI’s super-app strategy, Claude’s legal and small-business “unhobbling,” and a long segment on UAP/UFO disclosure. It also weaves in alignment, privacy, AI personhood, and the idea that the singularity may become visible in space before it does on Earth. 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: https://www.fountainlife.com/peter _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Substack Website Xprize Connect with Dave: Web X LinkedIn Instagram TikTok 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 May 14th, 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

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0:00.0	Anthropic is taking over all of SpaceX's Colossus 1 Data Center in Memphis,
0:05.0	and this immediately allowed Anthropic to double ClaudeCode rate limits.
0:09.0	I think Rock is on life support.
0:11.0	So this is Elon who had been for, you know, the past year,
0:16.0	shit-talking Anthropic.
0:18.0	Here he is now, you know, backing them and supporting them. In one way, Elon's
0:23.9	getting revenge against Open AI by helping Anthropic win. The enemy of my enemy as my friend,
0:28.6	is the exact quote from Elon. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who was famously fired from Open
0:34.1	AI on their alignment team and is now running a $5.5 billion fund two years later.
0:40.3	Anthropic hits 80x growth for this quarter and outruns their compute.
0:45.3	You can find a whole litany of things that are about to explode in demand.
0:50.3	The demand, I don't see it slowing down as a whole, chips, and the energy layer and the infrastructure, right?
0:57.6	This is the singularity loop.
1:01.5	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:06.6	Everybody, welcome to moonshots.
1:08.1	Another episode of WTF just happened in tech.
1:10.6	I'm here with my extraordinary friends and dear brothers, DB2, our wizard of AI investing, Selim Ismail, Emperor of Exponentials, and of course our resident genius AWG. I'm Peter D. Amanda, your host. And today, we've got an incredible program of stories that should get you pumped up about the singularity.
1:28.8	Excited. This is not politics. This is just science and technology driving us towards the singularity.
1:34.9	So gentlemen, excited to see you here. Selim, I have to ask, where on the planet are you today?
1:41.4	I just landed back. I just landed back from Montreal,
1:45.4	and I was given a Canadians jersey,
1:47.9	because I'm actually a Montreal native
	...

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