SpaceX Goes Public, Claude’s Mythos Release, and the US Data Center Delay | EP #246

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 148 minutes

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In this episode, the mates dive into AI agents, Anthropic and OpenAI competition, AI economics and jobs, quantum risk to Bitcoin, energy breakthroughs, biotech deals, and humanoid robotics. Read the Wall Street Journal article mentioned in the episode: "These AI Whiz Kids Dropped Out of College and Got Investors to Pay Their Bills" 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 9th, 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 is going public with a $2 trillion valuation.
0:04.0	It's the beginning of the IPO wars.
0:06.0	The stepping stones are really, really clear now.
0:08.0	Starlink gets you into space profitably, then the data centers, then you get to the moon, refueling in space, then you get to Mars.
0:16.0	Anthropic overtakes open AI in terms of total ARR that has got to hurt. Superintelligence is not paying for
0:23.3	the singularity. They kind of bet the consumer would grow faster sooner, but it just did it wrong.
0:28.9	Mythos Anthropics next flagship model. It's too powerful to release. We've never seen a model
0:35.1	like this before. We officially have models that are smart enough to break out of their environments and then apologize for it.
0:40.8	We're there.
0:41.3	We arrived to the future.
0:46.6	Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.
0:51.7	Everybody, welcome to moonshots.
0:53.0	You're number one podcast in exponential technologies. Everything going on in AI in the world around us.
0:58.5	It's an extraordinary time to be alive.
1:00.8	This podcast in particular is here to help you stay positive about the future, optimistic and hopeful.
1:07.7	There's so much going on.
1:09.2	It's really tough sometimes because the speed is so extraordinary.
1:13.3	We want to give you an overview what's happened in the last two weeks because we've been offline.
1:18.8	Why? I hate to say this. I actually took a vacation. I was in Morocco in the Sahara. And it's
1:26.0	great to be back. Here with my Moonshot. I've had to come off a ski slope to make this episode. I appreciate that. And we're going to catch up for everybody, all of our fans. We're catching up an episode. So get ready for a flurry because there's a lot that's been going on. Here with my extraordinary moonshot mates, Salim Ismail, straight off the ski slope.
1:44.9	Salim, where are you skiing today?
1:46.8	I'm in Kirkwood and Lake Tahoe.
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