Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | #232

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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In this episode, the mates, along with guest Ben Horowitz, explore Elon Musk's shift to lunar AI data centers, mass drivers, O'Neill cylinders, Dyson swarms, and Optimus robots pioneering space. 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 Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), NY Times bestseller author, and creator of the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund. 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 Ben X Instagram Linkedin Learn about a16z 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 13th, 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	A large number of departures from XAI from the founding team.
0:04.0	It wasn't clear to me whether they were fired or whether they left, you know, because they all leave on good terms.
0:08.0	I don't know the answer to that question. I will say that it's...
0:14.0	Recursive self-improvement RSI is the real trigger for the singularity, and it happened a while ago.
0:20.0	We're exiting the Industrial Age permanently as we're talking.
0:23.6	We're obviously going into a new world.
0:25.6	Like with the Industrial Revolution, I think it's scary at times to think about.
0:31.6	I think we have 150,000 people per day dying on Earth,
0:35.6	and I think AI is probably the best chance we have at stopping that.
0:40.2	Whoever is building the AI has a lot of control about how society is going to work. So I do think
0:44.9	there's real danger along these lines of attempting to pause it. When are we going to have
0:50.4	discovery by an AI of something as significant as relativity on its own. I don't think it's
0:57.1	the next 12 months. I think it's... Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. So everybody,
1:07.3	welcome to moonshots. Another episode of WTF here with my Moonshot mates,
1:11.7	DB2, AWG, Mr. EXO, and a friend of the pod, someone who's been with us before,
1:18.9	the amazing Ben Harwitz of Andresen Harwitz, Ben. Where are you today?
1:24.7	I am in Las Vegas today, actually. It is my wife's 60th birthday weekend super celebration.
1:31.7	So.
1:32.3	Oh, you get to merge that with Valentine's Day?
1:35.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:37.4	You get to save one.
1:38.2	Well, which is good news, bad news.
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