Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Claude Outpaces ChatGPT, and Consulting Gets Replaced | #234

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 129 minutes

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The hosts unpack AI's asteroid-like disruption—Anthropic's explosive enterprise growth outpacing OpenAI, Pentagon clashes over safeguards, and agentic revolutions from OpenClaw to meat puppets—urging agile evolution amid sovereign AI summits and trillion-dollar forecasts. Get notified once we go live during Abundance360: https://www.abundance360.com/livestream 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 _ 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 February 27th, 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	Big news this week, there's been a battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
0:05.0	The War Department demands Anthropic remove AI safeguards for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
0:11.0	Dario is refusing to do that.
0:13.0	The Pentagon would like to be able to not just control any legal usage of models that they've paid for, but also would like to shape the
0:23.2	cultural values.
0:24.5	We're going to see quite a bit more of that.
0:26.5	Anthropic is generating more revenue than Open AI by tenfold, so check out this chart.
0:31.2	Agents monetize faster than chatbots.
0:33.1	I think this is less about chatbots versus agents.
0:36.3	I think this is more about consumer versus enterprise.
0:39.3	Salim, I'm curious about your point of view here.
0:42.3	You and I have both spoken at all the major consulting firm.
0:46.3	And I have to say the last few events that I've spoken to the leadership teams,
0:51.3	they've been scared shitless.
0:53.3	We need to rebuild every institution,
0:56.2	and we architect every institution by which we run the world.
0:59.3	And that is the biggest advisor opportunity in the history of mankind.
1:04.6	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:09.6	So I just want to hit that analogy again, because it's really important.
1:14.7	You know, 66 million years ago, this massive 10-kilometer-sized asteroid strikes the Earth,
1:20.7	and it changes the environment so rapidly that the slow lumbering dinosaurs go extinct.
1:26.4	They can't evolve. They can't get out of their own way.
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