Opus 4.8 Beats GPT 5.5, the $220B OpenAI Foundation, and Hassabis’s 2029 AGI Prediction | EP #260

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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In this episode, the mates discuss Opus 4.8, The OpenAI Foundation, Demis Hassabis' views on AGI, AI extremism on the rise, and more. 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 Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader. 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 Substack Website Xprize Abundance360 Connect with Dave: Web X LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Connect with Salim: LinkedIn X Apply for Salim’s Pilot Program Subscribe to Salim’s YouTube channel Exponential Venture Capital Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack Spotify Threads Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on May 30th, 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 just dropped Opus 4.8, reclaimed the coding crown from GPD 5.5.
0:06.0	This feels like it's significantly better at managing many, many parallel threads.
0:11.0	I did have some trouble with the...
0:14.0	Open AI now has the largest nonprofit philanthropic war chest in the world.
0:19.0	They're funding research on public wealth funds,
0:23.4	worker ownership models, and AI dividends.
0:26.1	The mandate and the mission of all that money
0:28.9	is global, calm, peace, prosperity.
0:32.5	It matters tremendously to Sam.
0:34.6	This is a really bizarre story in my mind because Demis Sávez just tightened up his timeline
0:40.3	for AGI, agreeing with Ray Kurzweil for 2029.
0:44.1	Right now they're certainly not winning.
0:45.6	Gemini is not winning the rates.
0:47.7	I think we've arguably had some form of artificial general intelligence since 2020.
0:53.2	We're spending a lot of time on AGI and whether we achieve it or not.
0:56.9	And I think it's just noise.
0:58.0	I will make a prediction here.
1:01.8	Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:06.9	Welcome everybody to Moonshot.
1:08.5	Another episode of WTF just happened in tech. I'm here with my extraordinary moonshot mates. Alex, our in-house polymath. Alex, good morning to you.
1:17.4	Morning, Peter. Still in Chicago. Excited to be here, heading back soon. All right. DB2, our emperor of exponential investing. Dave, good morning to you. Good morning, good morning.
1:28.8	And Saleem, our father of exponential singularities,
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