Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Hosts

• Peter DiamandisHost voice used in sponsor read segments for Google for Startups and Fountain Life
• Dave BlundinFounder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots
• Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
• Salim IsmailFounder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots

Frequent guests

• Richard Socher · 1 episodeAI researcher, founder of You.com and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, author of The Eureka Machine
• Vlad Tenev · 1 episodeBulgarian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood and founder of Harmonic
• Martine Rothblatt · 1 episodeEntrepreneur and futurist mentioned by an audience member
• Emad Mostaque · 1 episodeFounder of Intelligent Internet and former CEO of Stability AI

Topics

• Anthropic
• OpenAI
• Longevity escape velocity
• AI alignment
• AI existential risk
• Recursive self-improvement
• Artificial general intelligence
• Artificial intelligence
• Attention economy
• Virtual cell models
• Decision models
• Gene drive
• Brain IT
• Tavus Gryphon
• Project Meridian

Recently covered

• 
  Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299

  Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min

  Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.

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  Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293

  Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 27 min

  Diamandis, Blundin, Wissner-Gross and Ismail answer audience questions on AI safety, universities, robotics, longevity, Europe and abundance.

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  Robinhood's Vlad Tenev on Tokenizing Everything, OpenAI's 6 Misalignment Reports, Figure's Robot Makes Beds | EP #292

  Sep 19, 2026 · 2 h 7 min

  Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev joins Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross to discuss AI liability, tokenization, Trump Accounts, agentic trading, humanoid robots and recursive self-improvement.

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  Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030

  Sep 15, 2026 · 50 min

  Peter Diamandis talks with Martine Rothblatt about thymus regeneration, xenotransplanted organs, longevity escape velocity, AI consciousness, digital personhood, Gerard O'Neill and entrepreneurial advice.

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  Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288

  Sep 11, 2026 · 2 h 44 min

  The Moonshots panel and Emad Mostaque debate AI safety resignations, P(doom), the Navier-Stokes solution, data as moat, GPU economics and AI-designed longevity drugs.

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