SpaceX’ $75B+ Historic IPO, GPT 5.5 Outperforms Polymarket, and AI Solves 80 yr old math problem | EP #257

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

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4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 112 minutes

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In this episode, the Moonshot mates discuss SpaceX's record-breaking IPO filing and its growing ties to Anthropic, OpenAI's AI model disproving a decades-old Erdős conjecture in mathematics, and GPT-5.5 beating prediction markets at forecasting. 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 Apply for Salim’s Pilot Program: https://openexo.com/organizational-singularity-pilot?podcast=23.5.26 Subscribe to Salim’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/@salimismail – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund: ⁠https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventures...⁠ 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 Connect with Dave: ⁠Web⁠ ⁠X⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠ 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 May 21st, 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	SpaceX filed for what's expected to be the largest IPO ever, $75 billion being raised at a valuation, probably north of $1.75 trillion.
0:09.9	He's about to have a currency to go on a shopping spree.
0:13.1	That sentence is so out of band with any point in human history.
0:16.4	Anyone out there doing a startup, there is capacity for a thousand unicorn transactions.
0:21.1	Remember, unicorn is called unicorn because it's supposed to be extremely rare.
0:24.1	GPT 5.5 is now beating prediction markets on forecasting the future.
0:29.1	It beat polymarket crowd predictions for the Super Bowl.
0:32.1	This is the worst psychohistory models will ever be.
0:35.6	The concentration of wealth effects from this would be insane.
0:39.8	The financial singularity.
0:41.8	This is a problem posed by the famous Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdisch.
0:46.8	About 80 years ago, now AI has just solved it.
0:49.3	Not only was it faster, not only was it able to brute force,
0:53.3	but it was also smarter. This is like a much
0:55.8	bigger moment in history than just solving a math problem. Hashtag solve everything, Peter. We're
1:01.4	seeing it.
1:06.4	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
1:14.3	Welcome everybody to another episode of moonshots.
1:17.1	I'm here with my extraordinary moonshot mates,
1:20.3	Saleem, the father of organizational singularities.
1:22.9	Your spawning singularities everywhere, buddy.
1:25.4	Alex Wiesner Gross, our in-house polymath.
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