Meta Buys Moltbook, GPT 5.4, and Fruitfly Brain Upload | Moonshots Live at The Abundance Summit 238

**Peter Diamandis** (2:06)
You know, a huge amount of expectation on GPT-5. What do you think of it?

**Emad Mostaque** (2:10)
Right now, everyone on this should be trying to get as much data because the models are coming. Now we have the right models.

**Salim Ismail** (2:15)
The real power will come in the cost drop, which will make it much more accessible to a lot of people.

**Dave Blundin** (2:20)
The anticipation of this launch was up there with the top three product launches of all time. I think they actually showed some incredible capabilities.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (2:28)
As the cost of talent is increasing, that's going to force Frontier Labs to start competing based on algorithmic insights and ideas.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:36)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome the Moonshot Mates.

**SPEAKER_8** (2:47)
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for the Moonshot Mates.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:50)
Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome. All right. I love you guys. I love you guys. Any fans of the Moonshots podcast here in the room? Oh, love to hear it. Love to hear it. So, listen, I am so blessed to have an extraordinary group of brilliant individuals that I get to work with twice a week. You know, we talk about the rate at which we're actually generating our Moonshot podcast is accelerating. We're going to be moving into to Airbnb together and doing a continuous podcast very soon enough. All right. I want to bring them out one at a time because they're all extraordinary. Let's give it up first and foremost to DB2 Dave Blundin. Dave, come on out.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:42)
Dave Blundin, everybody.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:44)
All right. Next up, my brother from another mother, Salim Ismail. Give it up for Salim.
All right, we're about to make magic happen because these two gentlemen have never met in person. Let's bring out AWG, our resident genius, Alex Wissner-Gross. All right, and live from London, it's Emad Mostaque, everybody.

**SPEAKER_9** (4:43)
Wow. All right.

**Peter Diamandis** (4:44)
We're huge. Let's grab our seats. No, of course, Salim needs to bring his glass of wine out.

**Dave Blundin** (4:50)
Oh, God, it's real.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:53)
OMG.

**Peter Diamandis** (4:54)
So first of all, just to make a little bit of Moonshot podcast history here. Alex, please meet Salim.

**Dave Blundin** (5:02)
That's flesh.

**Salim Ismail** (5:04)
Our meat puppets meet for the first time.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (5:05)
This proves nothing.

**Peter Diamandis** (5:11)
There has been conjecture for the last year or so whether Alex is an AI.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (5:16)
I am freshly bio-printed.

**Dave Blundin** (5:19)
You're a Neuralink. These thoughts aren't real.

**Peter Diamandis** (5:22)
So, gentlemen, I appreciate having you guys here at the Abundance Summit. So this is a live broadcast from the Abundance Summit here in Palos Verdes, year 14 of our 25-year journey together and excited that you guys are going to be on stage with me every year from here on out.

**Dave Blundin** (5:43)
Wait, you just committed this to a 24x7 Airbnb podcast. I think it's a reality TV.

**Peter Diamandis** (5:49)
Tell your family.

**Dave Blundin** (5:50)
Cameras in the bathroom the whole night? That will sell.

**Peter Diamandis** (5:54)
Well, okay, welcome to a special episode of WTF Just Happened in Tech, your number one podcast for AI and exponential tech. Our mission, getting you ready for the supersonic tsunami heading your way.
And it's a lot. It's a lot. All right. Shall we dive on in? Let's begin.

**Dave Blundin** (6:17)
All right. Here we go.

**Peter Diamandis** (6:18)
So let me begin by, we made an announcement here at the summit that I want to share with everybody on the Moonshots podcast. Something near and dear to my heart, something that I've concocted with the Xprize board, which both Dave and Salim are on, which is the launch of a global competition called the Future Vision Xprize. So I, for one, am just sick and tired of all the dystopian content on TV and in the movies. We are basically being brainwashed that all AI and robots are dystopian, killer AIs, killer robots, it's Terminator, it's Black Mirror. And, in fact, if you see that, if that's the only future that you see, then why would you ever want to live there?

**Dave Blundin** (7:07)
Yeah, yeah, that's so true. So much of what we build is intentional and it comes right out of our vision of the future that comes straight from the media. And then we create what we see.

**Peter Diamandis** (7:16)
Yeah.

**Dave Blundin** (7:16)
If you change what we see, you're going to change what we build.

**Peter Diamandis** (7:18)
Yeah, you know, I say over and over again, we're holding two futures in superposition. One future is Star Trek, where we're collaborative with technology, we're working with technology. And that's an amazing future. That's what I want for myself and my family and my community. The other one is the dystopian future. It is Terminator, it's Black Mirror. It's one where technology is suppressing us, not enabling us. So about a year ago, I sat down with Rod Roddenberry, the son of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, and said, how about we do something to incentivize the next generation of Star Treks? Then I went on to my friends at Google. They brought in Range Media. We brought in the Xprize that is operating this competition. We've raised $3.5 million for a competition that launched yesterday and is going to go through the Moonshot Gathering, which I'll mention in a minute, on September 25th, the finales. Let's roll the video. You know, this exists because of a TV show, and I'm not exaggerating. Martin Cooper, the man who invented the mobile phone, said he built it because he saw it on Star Trek. He saw Captain Kirk flip open a communicator and thought, hey, I can make that real. The iPad, it started as a prop on Star Trek too. Video calls, Star Trek. Voice assistants, Star Trek again. Props became products. Fiction became multi-trillion dollar industries. So here's the question. What's a vision of the future that excites you? What stories offer humanity a hopeful, compelling and abundant vision of what's to come? We're putting up $3 million in prize money, plus millions in film financing to make your movie. Our program in partnership with the Xprize Foundation, Google and Ranged Media Partners is called the Future Vision Xprize. And it's one of the world's largest competition to address humanity's greatest need, hope. Create a trailer or short film, 3 minutes or less. Show us in the world your vision of the future. That vision could become the next blueprint for all of humanity. Find out more and register at futurevisionxprize.com.