The AI War: OpenAI Ads & Sora 2, Grok Partners With US Government & Google’s Ad Business is at Risk w/ Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail, & Alex Wissner-Gross | EP #198
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 132 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Very recently, we've seen the creation of SOR2. |
| 0:04.5 | We're seeing in front of our eyes the transition from algorithmic content selection |
| 0:10.3 | in social media to algorithmic content generation. |
| 0:13.2 | This isn't about sharing content. |
| 0:16.2 | The creation of the content is completely up for grabbed. |
| 0:19.0 | Meta launches vibes app for AI generated videos. |
| 0:23.6 | They're spending a billion dollars on single employees, yet they turn to mid-Journey and Black Forest to build this out. |
| 0:29.6 | The most shocking thing about this isn't how real it is, isn't how easy it is to use, it's the fact that it's free. |
| 0:35.6 | That is shocking. Open AI is bringing ads to chat |
| 0:40.4 | GPT. The AI is going to be incredibly good at convincing you to do things, whether they're right or wrong. |
| 0:45.1 | It's a very tricky balance. And because they're spending so much money on the data centers, |
| 0:50.3 | there's a huge incentive to get really aggressive with the advertising. |
| 0:59.3 | Making all of the demonetization and democratization occur around the world are the ongoing AI wars. Let's jump in. |
| 1:03.7 | Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:08.9 | Everybody, welcome to Moonshots. Another episode of WTF just happened in tech here with my favorite |
| 1:14.0 | friends on the planet dave dv blundon good to see you pal i'm salim ismael i am back you are back |
| 1:23.0 | and a wg you're back from your top secret mission. Thank God. |
| 1:28.2 | Thank God. |
| 1:29.8 | Are you going to tell us anything about it? |
| 1:38.0 | To the extent that you think that we're on the verge of a sharp takeoff, a hard takeoff, if you will, I was traveling in Europe to see what the world looks like beforehand. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:44.0 | So you're updating your baseline of what the world is before things go hyper-exponential. |
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