NVIDIA's $96.2B Quarter, China's 200,000 Fake Accounts, & OpenAI's New Chip | EP #284

**Peter Diamandis** (0:00)
Nvidia just booked $96.2 billion in revenue in a single quarter.

**Dave Blundin** (0:05)
Isn't that a closed loop circular economy? Couldn't that collapse? Every economy is circular in nature.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:10)
To the extent there is an elephant in this particular room, that would be.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:15)
The X safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts. We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. These posts contain claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:30)
Shocked. Shocked, I say, that there are foreign influence operations attempting to suppress American AI data center deployment. Shocked.

**Salim Ismail** (0:37)
The difficult part is we have really no easy defense against it.

**Peter Diamandis** (0:41)
OpenAI released the first performances of their chip, Jalapeno. OpenAI is no longer just a customer of Nvidia. They're becoming a chip designer.

**Dave Blundin** (0:51)
Inference is moving off of Nvidia for sure. This is the first 2x of 100x performance gains.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (0:55)
We're in such a crazy future where I could imagine a world where, say, an OpenAI compute cloud hosts an Anthropic model and OpenAI and Anthropic win at the same time.

**Dave Blundin** (1:08)
Now, that's the Moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:13)
Welcome to Moonshots, everyone, your number one podcast on all things AI and exponential. Your front row seat to the incredible accelerating Singularity. I hope you can feel it like we all do.
You know, guys, we just recorded two days ago, and it feels like a lifetime ago.

**Dave Blundin** (1:28)
I can't believe it. I mean, every story we're going through today is new information in the last two days.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:33)
It's crazy. It is like the chessboard.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (1:35)
It's the podcasting Singularity, Peter.

**Peter Diamandis** (1:37)
It really is.
Guys, I'm here with my incredible, my original four Moonshot magnificent mates, Alex Wissner-Gross, our in-house ASI. And, you know, the question, Alex, is, are you real? Well, if people come to the Moonshots live event, they'll have a chance to evaluate your flesh and bloodness.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (2:00)
Maybe that's the one AMA question that I get. That's the one AMA.
Everyone can copy you, Peter, and pinch my cheeks.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:09)
Yeah, exactly.
Dave Blundin, our impresario of AI investing. And, Dave, you're going to be running a session on AI investing at Moonshots live, which is going to be very good. And Salim Ismail, our global globetrotter, our where's Waldo. You're back from Brazil.

**Salim Ismail** (2:28)
I'm back 36 hours in Brazil and back. I've probably got one of the worst carbon footprints anywhere right now.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:34)
Are you leaving tomorrow for like Japan or?

**Salim Ismail** (2:36)
No, I'm here for a few days. And then I've got an overnight next week. It's not so bad.

**Dave Blundin** (2:42)
We should make you be like Bill Gates and buy carbon offsets for all the emissions from your place.

**Salim Ismail** (2:47)
I'll plant a tree in every airport front lawn that I get to.

**Peter Diamandis** (2:52)
I'm Peter Diamandis, your host and optimism provocateur. So much happening in the last two days. We've reviewed 200 plus stories. I get a download from my AI and from Alex, my other AI every day.
We've narrowed it down to about 15 today that are fun. I would categorize these stories as provocative, like massively impactful and bizarre. That's sort of my summary.

**Alexander Wissner-Gross** (3:19)
Sometimes all at once.

**Peter Diamandis** (3:20)
All at once, yeah, for sure. Our mission here is keep you optimistic and ready for the supersonic tsunami that is heading our way. If you're new to Moonshots, welcome. Pleasure to have you. Our mission here is keep you informed of what just happened and where things are going. If you're a regular, a fellow Moonshotter, welcome back. Let me share a slide here, because I want to invite people to two specific elements here.
The first is we're going to be having a Moonshots AMA over Zoom. We're inviting all of you, our listeners, to join us. We're going to be doing it twice in September, once in the morning, so that people in Europe and Asia can easily join, once in the evening, so people in the East Coast and in the US can join. We want to meet you.
We don't get a chance to answer all of your questions, so you're going to have a shot at grilling Alex, Dave, Salim and myself on this.

**Dave Blundin** (4:19)
I love these units too, because we get to hear what's on everybody's mind. It's never obvious to me what people are thinking, because there's so much impact from all this change, but it affects different people differently, so it's really nice to get a sample of what's going through everybody's brain.