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GPT-6 Astra Saturates ARC-AGI-3, Tesla's $30K Cybercab Floods Austin, Anthropic Proves Fermat's Last Theorem | EP #286 artwork

GPT-6 Astra Saturates ARC-AGI-3, Tesla's $30K Cybercab Floods Austin, Anthropic Proves Fermat's Last Theorem | EP #286

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

September 5, 2026

The mates sit down with Emad Mostaque to discuss: GPT-6 Astra’s ARC-AGI-3 performance, Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 frontier results, Tesla’s $30K Cybercab takeover, the collapse of mobility costs, AI cyber risks, and the growing debate over banning artificial superintelligence.

Speakers Peter Diamandis, Alexander Wissner-Gross, Emad Mostaque, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail, Sam Altman, Elon Musk

TopicsBusiness

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

GPT-6 Astra brings together years of research.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:03)

This seems like a next generation frontier model that's designed with CUA from the ground up.

Emad Mostaque (0:10)

On certain benchmarks, like Arc-Agi-3, which it saturates, fantastic. But then you look at the artificial analysis benchmark, and it actually lags behind Metamuse Spark, you know? Like, it's kind of weird.

Peter Diamandis (0:22)

Tesla held its Cybercab Lollapalooza, a river of golden EVs flooding the streets. Elon wants to sell these at $30,000 each, so you can buy 10 of them and put them on the streets in your local town, have them earn revenue for you.

Dave Blundin (0:36)

There'll be enormous chunks of entire cities that say, you know what? No more human drivers. It's so much more efficient. Not only is it much cheaper, but it's much more...

Emad Mostaque (0:45)

The technology is arriving fast. Like, you know, just go something across my feed. Anthropic just formalized Fermat's last theorem in 13 million lines of code, proving 29,000 theorems on the way.

Peter Diamandis (0:57)

Really?

Emad Mostaque (0:57)

The map is cooked. Everything is cooked.

Dave Blundin (1:02)

Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

Peter Diamandis (1:07)

Welcome to Moonshots, everyone. Your number one podcast on all things AI and exponential. Your front row seat to the accelerating Singularity. Today, all of the mates are in the house. The Quintet, The Fabulous Five, and oh man, oh man, we're going to need all of their brain power, you know, to get through the day today. This is an epic, and I mean an epic episode today. Let me introduce you to my magnificent mates.

If you are the first time joining us, we've got Dave Blundin, the empersario of AI Investing, AWG, Alex Wissner-Gross, our in-house ASI, Salim Ismail, our Globetrotter, father of the organizational singularity, and warlord against linear thinking.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (1:51)

You're the warlord forever more, Salim.

Dave Blundin (1:53)

I'm the warlord.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (1:54)

I'm good.

Salim Ismail (1:54)

I'll go for that.

Peter Diamandis (1:56)

Finally, Emad Mostaque, back in the house by unanimous demand. I'm Peter Diamandis, your moderator and data-driven optimist.

Salim, we got to ask, where are you today and what happened last episode? Were you held up in customs again?

Salim Ismail (2:12)

No, I was not in customs and thank you for the kind words from everybody. I was with the C-suite of one of the bigger oil companies in the world in Houston and it was kind of a really surreal and fascinating conversation.

But I'm really deeply sorry to have missed the last episode. But Jesus, guys, I mean, you know, I missed one episode and you guys announced Interstellar Mission. You discuss AI designing its own ships.

You hand Elon the planetary thermostat. Apparently, I'm the moderating influence in this group, so you should worry a lot of people. I'm actually down in the Caribbean right now. We decided we needed a couple of days break, so we popped down. So you guys are standing between me and a Hobie cat and a little colorful drink with an umbrella in it. So we got to keep it tight and punchy today.

Peter Diamandis (3:02)

It's a big episode today, Salim. So, you know, get patient with us.

Salim Ismail (3:06)

Yes.

Peter Diamandis (3:07)

You know, our mission here on Moonshots is to help you understand what just happened, what it means for you, and most importantly, to keep you abundance minded about our future. If you haven't had a chance to subscribe yet, please do right now, hit the subscribe button. You know, we're putting out two episodes a week, and God knows the demand is there for more, and I wouldn't want you to miss one. So two different things I'd love you guys to take advantage of.

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