Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman, AI Job Loss, and OpenAI’s $852B Valuation | EP #247

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 131 minutes

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This episode is about AI agents, OpenAI and Anthropic competition, the future of work, energy breakthroughs, Bitcoin and quantum risk, biotech, and humanoid robots. Post from Elon Musk on X mentioned in the episode: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2042090236206063966?s=46 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 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 April 10th, 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	It's the Musk versus Altman lawsuit.
0:02.0	Musk has sued Open AI for $100 billion.
0:05.0	I kind of figured behind the scenes they don't actually hate each other.
0:09.0	These guys actually hate each other to the like extreme.
0:14.0	Open AI is valued at 70 times revenues right now.
0:17.0	Their last raise was at $852 billion valuation. These numbers are insane. It's like nothing
0:24.7	we've ever seen. And the timeline is so much shorter than we've ever seen before.
0:28.4	$3 billion a day being invested. No one said the singularity was going to be cheap. No one's being
0:34.5	honest about this. If you take a random white collar worker today, what are the odds that that randomly
0:40.0	selected job can be replaced two years from today?
0:42.8	We told you already that AI will be able to do everything that a white collar worker does
0:48.0	imminently.
0:49.6	That's a fact.
0:50.8	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
0:59.4	I had so much fun this morning.
1:01.7	What happened this morning?
1:03.2	I got Alex, was supposed to run a panel.
1:06.7	Hending over the torch to Dave to moderate a panel.
1:09.5	I moderated it.
1:10.5	I had to wing it, which is so fun because I have no accountability whatsoever.
1:13.8	And I can ask anything I want.
1:15.7	And it was the most fun ever.
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