Anthropic Partners With SpaceX AI, Leopold's $5.5B Bet, and the Singularity Economy | EP #255

**Peter Diamandis** (0:00)
Anthropic is taking over all of SpaceX's Colossus One data center in Memphis, and this immediately allowed Anthropic to double Claude Code rate limits.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:09)
I think Rock is on life support.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:11)
So this is Elon, who had been for the past year shit-talking Anthropic. Here he is now backing them and supporting them. In one way, Elon's getting revenge against OpenAI by helping Anthropic win.

**Dave Blundin** (0:27)
The enemy of my enemy as my friend is the exact quote from Elon.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:30)
Leopold Aschenbrenner, who was famously fired from OpenAI on their alignment team and is now running a $5.5 billion fund two years later. Anthropic hits 80x growth for this quarter and outruns their compute.

**Dave Blundin** (0:45)
You can find a whole litany of things that are about to explode in demand.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:50)
The demand, I don't see it slowing down. As a whole, chips and the energy layer and the infrastructure, right? This is the Singularity Loop.

**Dave Blundin** (1:01)
Now that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:06)
Everybody, welcome to Moonshots, another episode of WTF Just Happened in Tech. I'm here with my extraordinary friends and dear brothers, DB2, our Wizard of AI Investing, Salim Ismail, Emperor of Exponentials, and of course, our resident genius AWG. I'm Peter Diamandis, your host.
And today we've got an incredible program of stories that should get you pumped up about the Singularity. Excited, this is not politics, this is just science and technology driving us towards the Singularity. So, gentlemen, excited to see you here. Salim, I have to ask, where on the planet are you today?

**Salim Ismail** (1:41)
I just landed back. I just landed back from Montreal and I was given a Canadian's jersey because I'm actually a Montreal native and a massive Montreal Canadians fan because I grew up there.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:54)
Is that like a small round ball or a puck?

**Salim Ismail** (1:59)
That's the hard round thing that immigrants like me, our ankles never quite managed to. But in Canada, you had to skate a few, otherwise they took your passport away. So I used to play a bit of hockey.

**Dave Blundin** (2:10)
Hey, we got to play some. Let's do some pod hockey up in Vermont. That's my all-time favorite thing to do.

**Salim Ismail** (2:17)
So the folks gave me this jersey. I had to wear it because we're right in the middle of this stuff. So anybody in Buffalo, I'm rooting for the Canadians, but I'm the longest-suffering Bills fan in history. So there's that.

**Dave Blundin** (2:29)
Let's see your teeth. I want to see which ones are fake.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:34)
I've missed the complete gene sequence on sports. Sorry.
Dave, good to see you back in the nest. As always, Alex, good to see your virtual environment.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (2:46)
And virtual self. What's the difference really at this point?

**Dave Blundin** (2:52)
Peter, I know you go to your kids' baseball games. You're probably chewing tobacco and spitting it, and you have a dual life. That's what I thought.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:00)
We have an incredible show today. We're going to be kicking it off with the demand for AI is like off the rails, outstripping supply. You know, Claude is continuing to disrupt sector after sector with the great unhobbling.
Google is joining our push towards Earth's Dyson swarm. We'll be jumping into the singularity economy. You know, what are the sectors that are providing outsized financial returns during this supersonic tsunami? We're going to cover a topic near and dear to my heart, which is a very simple, very powerful concept to ensure AI alignment. So, we can deliver a P-Doom that is less than zero. Thank you, Alex, for that meme. I love that. P-Doom less than zero.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:40)
We need t-shirts for it.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:42)
We do. I saw the t-shirt you made. We're going to have to put that up for people to be able to take down.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:47)
Anyway, because Peter, if no one makes it, everyone dies.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:52)
Oh, no.
And towards the end of this pod today, we're going to be talking about the recent disclosures by the White House on, let's call them UFOs versus UAPs. The White House is saying they're here, but who are they? Where are they? Where are they from? And when are you going to come and pick me up and take me for a ride? So, that's going to be some fun conversations today. Let's begin with a important conversation today. Anthropic is outpacing their ability to supply tokens. So, Anthropic hits 80x growth for this quarter and outruns their compute. Anthropic Developer Conference last week, CEO Dario Amade revealed that Anthropic has experienced an 80-fold growth in Q1 of 2026, outpacing what they expected as a 10x growth. I mean, you don't see this in Silicon Valley. You don't see this anywhere. Maybe, maybe Dave, for some of your early companies, you're seeing that kind of growth. But here, their annualized revenue run rate jumped from 9 billion at the end of 2025 to 30 billion in April. It's now north of, I think, 40 billion in May.