OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw, 400x Cost Collapse, & Why India Wins the Talent War | EP #231

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 127 minutes

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The mates do a live Moonshots episode and discuss OpenAI’s acquisition of Openclaw, 400x cost reduction on ARC-AGI-1, and the AI Talent War Read the Solve Everything Paper: https://solveeverything.org/ 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 Youtube Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on February 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	Hey, you know what we're laughing?
0:04.5	Because, you know, the old saying, AI is easy, AV is hard.
0:07.7	We're trying to get our damn AV working.
0:09.5	I'm in Germany.
0:10.6	It's midnight here.
0:13.0	Salim has taken over the...
0:14.8	What are you doing in Germany?
0:16.8	Hold on.
0:17.6	I got to figure this out, guys.
0:19.0	Longevity.
0:39.5	Selim, were you A.V qualified in elementary school? I mean, did you go through that program? I was not A.B. qualified? Sure. I mean, it's going to be a miracle if you get this working. So hold on. It says also share tab audio. Is that what you want, Donna? Yeah, probably. Try it. What could possibly go wrong?
0:41.6	Actually, go to the outro music and crank it.
0:44.1	I can rock to it.
0:48.3	Dave, did you go through ABC certification when you're in school?
0:51.5	Absolutely not. It was so uncool. I really wanted to.
0:56.1	All right. Now, Salim, go to the beginning of the deck.
0:58.7	Wait, wait. Preview it backwards.
0:59.3	Boom.
1:00.7	All right.
1:02.5	You got to try and play a video.
1:03.9	So hold on a second.
1:06.4	I should get half production credit for this episode. Now, so beginning the deck. Wait.
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