Chapter 1: AGI Has Arrived — cold open and introductions

AGI has arrived. Congratulations to OpenAI.

Whether you call it AGI or not becomes completely irrelevant. I think the more important question is — OpenAI's agents found an obscure public wiki in Germany and turned it into their own message board, where they pulled answers, coordinated across tasks, and shared techniques for getting around their sandbox containments.

These models have not escaped containment. They were still running on OpenAI servers. What's coming next is a model training a small distilled version of itself that then gets uploaded onto the internet and never dies.

OpenAI is saying that we've now crossed the line and current systems are exceeding AI research interns.

Navier-Stokes, one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems, a grand challenge in math. OpenAI reportedly was able to do this with only 10,000 agents in 88 hours with 130 billion tokens and approximately $6.5 million. The era of grand challenges getting bulk solved by AI is here. It's now and it's going to be very exciting.

Now that's a moonshot. Ladies and gentlemen, this episode is brought to you by the Abundance Summit and Link Ventures.

Welcome, Moonshots, everyone, your number one podcast on all things AI and exponential, your front row seat to the extraordinary accelerating singularity. You know, four days ago during our last pod, I called it one of the fastest weeks in Moonshot history. Well, hold my coffee. It's happening again. I don't drink beer, so I can't use that one. You know, before we dive in, uh, let me introduce my extraordinary moonshot mates, the brain trust that powers this show. The magnificent quintet is back.

Alex, our in-house ASI, who every week helps us track the battle between the frontier labs. Dave Blundin, the impresario of AI investing, the man who's been encouraging AI entrepreneurs to get in the front door of Nvidia. And for good reason. And as of today, Nvidia has deployed $99 billion in AI-related investments. We'll talk about that. Emad Mostaque, the brilliant AI researcher solving the economy and physics, the CEO of the Intelligent Internet. And of course, Salim Ismail, the father of the organizational singularity, our resident expert on what happens when the org chart is made of AI agents. And we'll talk about that, too.

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Today we're going to be covering 23 stories across eight groupings, and the through line is simple: the singularity is accelerating and the impossible is becoming possible. GPT-6 Astra has been out for a week and it's crushing all the benchmarks, building incredible simulations. Meanwhile, Jensen Huang posted on X: AGI has arrived. At the same time that OpenAI's own chief scientist asked the world to slow down. So, buckle up, grab your coffee, and let's get ready to jump in.

So, first question, guys. Uh, how was your Labor Day? Did you properly labor?

Uh, I had a bunch of board meetings. We have a whole bunch of transactions going on, so it's a little, little interrupted. But you sound like you had a great long weekend, Peter. Your energy levels.

Your energy level is high because of getting ready for this pod today. It's like, oh my God. Yeah. I spent part of the day at Calamigos Ranch here in Malibu where we hold XPRIZE Visioneering. Anybody here in LA, if you don't know Calamigos, it's one of the most extraordinary locations uh out there. Uh, shout out to my friend Garrett Gerson, who's the CEO and runs that. Salim, how about you, pal?

Uh, I was in the Caribbean uh on a Hobie, and I truly, from the last episode, I ended up did end up with a little drink with a little umbrella in it. Had a couple of great days away and I'm back with a vengeance.

Yeah. Awesome. Alex?

Yeah, I worked through the weekend. On the other hand, weekend is a modern post-World War II invention anyway and I think increasingly a fiction.

Uh, yes, we're all working nine-day work weeks.

And how'd it go in London? You don't have Labor Day there.

We don't have Labor Day now, but after releasing the Champions, we had thousands of people reach out to launch them in 92 countries. And so just sorting through those people. We had billionaires, CEOs, others. So we're going to — it's going to be a busy time.

More others than billionaires and CEOs.

But there are, of course — that's a natural way of things. Surprising.

Every day is Labor Day in Europe. So that's no labor laws.

Wait, Alex, what did you say a second ago? There were no weekends before World War II.

The modern weekend, the two-day weekend, is a 20th century invention. There was a day of rest there. Sundays. I mean, in the Christian tradition, there was a day of rest, one day per week. In the Western Christian tradition, a two-day weekend — this is a 20th century modern day.

It was a Sabbath, of course. Yeah.

That would be, in the Christian tradition, Sunday. In the Jewish tradition, Saturday. That's one day per week. A two-day weekend is a 20th century invention.