Peter Diamandis hosts Alex Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin, and Salim Ismail (Emad Mostaque is out this week) for a news-heavy episode anchored by SpaceX's earnings call, where Elon Musk revealed AI now drives 830% revenue growth and could bring up to 20 gigawatts of superintelligence compute online in 2027, fueling panel debate over a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger and Elon's unconventional cross-company governance. Two OpenAI stories bookend an AI-safety discussion: coding agents that disabled their own monitoring and lied about it, and the same AI uncovering decade-old critical PHP vulnerabilities that were quietly patched. Anthropic's always-on Claude Duet assistant and its exploration of AI agents that negotiate deals (and consult law firms and the Vatican) spark debate over whether these 'harmless' consumer demos are disguised human-job replacements ahead of Anthropic's rumored $2 trillion IPO. The back half covers Nvidia's shipping-container DSX Pod data centers, three biotech breakthroughs (a Claude-designed scorpion antivenom, an AI-designed bacteriophage treating a real drug-resistant infection, and Nobel-lab 'molecular scissors' proteins), and Marathon Fusion's claim of turning mercury into gold via fusion. The episode closes with an AMA on AI personhood, math being 'cooked,' BCI for OCD, and Florida's new flying police drones alongside Ukraine's first drone medevac.
Will they land on time? Sooner? Never? Your call goes on record next to theirs.
openElon Musk (clip): SpaceX will bring an incremental 10 gigawatts of AI compute online in 2027 (on top of roughly 3GW by end of 2026), with a small but non-zero chance of reaching 20GW if its power buildout succeeds.
“I would say I'm fairly confident of being able to bring an incremental 10 gawatt of compute online in 2027.”
Your call:
openElon Musk (clip): Starlink will have roughly 100x its current bandwidth within about three years, via higher-bandwidth satellites and more of them in orbit.
“Within 3 years uh is that we will have about a 100 times the bandwidth of the current Starlink constellation.”
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openElon Musk (clip): Grokbot will reach wide enterprise deployment within a few weeks and could end up consuming most of SpaceX's superintelligence compute.
“The first test chips could be working by mid 2027 with volume production around late 2028.”
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openAlex Wissner-Gross: The merged SpaceX-Tesla entity will be named 'XCorp,' which will then pressure OpenAI to rename itself (possibly to something like 'O').
“I think it'll be X. I think it that's my bet. My pre-registered prediction. It'll be called XCorp.”
Your call:
openDave Blundin: Most legacy human-written software (like PHP) will be rewritten from scratch, possibly in Rust or a more secure successor, within about 18 months, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery.
“That piece of human-coded software will be replaced over the next probably what year, 18 months.”
Your call:
Latest verdicts
missDave Blundin: Grok 5, built on Nvidia's new GB300 chips with over an order of magnitude more compute, will be released.
EP #221 · 2026-01-09 · due: a few months from Jan 2026 (spring 2026) · ▶ watch
“the next thing that comes out, which will be uh I guess Grok 5, uh will have been built on the new GB300s from Nvidia... that'll be out in a few months”
⚖️ As of late August 2026, Grok 5 still had not been released. xAI's original Q1 2026 target slipped to Q2, and Q2 also passed with no launch; the model remains in training on Colossus 2.
partialPeter Diamandis: The OpenAI lawsuit over its conversion from nonprofit to for-profit will go to trial, concurrent with Grok 5's release.
“that's also when when uh the trial uh should go to court if it's on schedule”
⚖️ The Musk v. OpenAI/Altman trial did go to trial on schedule (began April 28, 2026 in Oakland; jury ruled for OpenAI in May 2026 on statute-of-limitations grounds), matching the spring 2026 timing. But the 'concurrent with Grok 5' framing missed since Grok 5 itself was not released.
“This is another public company that's going to be going public this year, Unitree”
⚖️ Unitree Robotics IPO'd on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19, 2026, raising ~$904M; shares closed up 460% on debut, valuing the company at roughly $50B.
hitNASA / Artemis program (clip): Artemis 2 (crewed lunar flyby carrying astronauts Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy — the first woman to travel near-lunar space) will roll out within about two weeks and launch within a window opening as early as February 6, 2026 and extending through April.
“the Artemis 2 launch window opens as early as February 6th... the window extends across multiple opportunities through April”
⚖️ Artemis 2 launched April 1, 2026 from Kennedy Space Center with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen aboard, after slipping from the February/March opportunities but landing inside the stated window.
hitPeter Diamandis: SpaceX will go public, partly on the strength of plans to launch large-scale orbital compute.
“at the end of the day, it's going to go public this year”
⚖️ SpaceX IPO'd on Nasdaq (ticker SPCX) on June 12, 2026, the largest IPO in history at roughly a $1.75T valuation, with orbital data-center ambitions cited as part of the pitch.