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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Opus 4.6 Tops Benchmarks, ChatGPT Market Share Decline, and the Privacy Breakdown | EP 228

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

The hosts unpack the latest AI breakthroughs — from Opus 4.6 and AGI debates to robotics, energy innovation, and the future of AI personhood, privacy, and the workforce. 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 6th, 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 drops Claude Opus 4.6.

0:04.0

It's the new King of the Hill on coding, reasoning and research.

0:07.0

There are so many aspects in which this is a feel, the AGI moment.

0:12.0

By every measure, it's a beast.

0:14.0

Opus 4.6 just dropped and it's absolutely wild.

0:17.0

This thing handles one million tokens now.

0:19.0

That's like reading 750,000 words in one go.

0:22.6

This is recursive self-improvement. This is a model that's able to rewrite essentially the entire tech stack underneath it.

0:28.6

ChatGPT market share falls between 25 and 26.

0:31.6

So what is the next move for Open AI to get the mojo back?

0:36.6

For the general public, if you think you absolutely have privacy, I would say guess again.

0:44.3

A fundamental pillar of American society has been washed away with no public conversation about it.

0:49.3

AI can read your lips from 100 meters away. I can walk over to you and shake your hand, grab a few skin

0:54.5

cells, sequence you, and know everything about you.

0:56.6

I do think it is possible to maintain privacy even today, and I think it will be possible

1:02.0

even post-singularity. I gotta say, I just don't see it happening.

1:09.1

Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:13.8

It was fun.

1:15.1

We dropped the last episode earlier this week, and I'm reading in the comments.

1:20.3

You just dropped the episode, and Opus 4.6 and Codex just came out.

1:24.9

It's like, the world's changing way too fast.

1:30.3

It is nuts. I was with a group of 150 chief security officers over the last couple of days. And it was pretty epic to see the shock

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