The OpenAI Internet Browser Has Arrived: ChatGPT Atlas w/ Dave Blundin & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #203

Dave Blundin (0:00)

Open AI has launched a full-blown browser. The competitive positioning versus Google is basically all-out war.

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Today, we're going to launch ChatGPT Atlas. This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT. We think that AI represents a rare, once a decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about.

Peter Diamandis (0:16)

Okay, great. But Google didn't come in and do at least this, and take back any market share they lose.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (0:24)

I don't think we should think of it as a product. I think we should think of it as a distribution channel. For OpenAI's superintelligence.

Having a local agent mode, I think, is potentially transformative.

Dave Blundin (0:36)

If Sam wins the data aggregation race, if he falls behind for a month or a year in the AI race, he still has your data.

Peter Diamandis (0:43)

We're going to have an AI that is our personal portal into everything. And I'm not going to care what browser I use. I'm just going to be able to have a conversation with my AI, and it will pull up the data from wherever it is, whether it's using superintelligence from OpenAI or Google.

Dave Blundin (1:02)

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

Peter Diamandis (1:07)

Everybody welcome to Moonshots, another episode of WTF Just Happened in Tech. I'm here with my Moonshot mates, Dave Blundin and AWG, Alex Wissner-Gross. Good morning, gentlemen.

Dave Blundin (1:17)

Hey, good morning. And a huge shout out to the team, you know, we were going to shoot this podcast last night, and Alex had so much material that happened in the last three days that we just needed to get in here. I mean, things are changing so quickly. So basically, the team pulled an all-nighter last night to pull together these stories, and it's epic. So thank you, team, behind the scenes.

Peter Diamandis (1:39)

Yeah, right now, our fourth Moonshot mate, Salim, is on an airplane. I just spent the last four days with him here in Kalamigos in Malibu for X-Prize Visioneering 2025, which is a story I want to open up with Dave. I wish you were here. Alex, I wish you were here. It was awesome. So for those of you who don't know, X-Prize every year gets together our brain trust and our benefactors, and we debate and we discuss what are the problems that aren't being solved, that need to be solved, or what are the challenges that are too far out and we need to accelerate them and bring them forward. And that's Visioneering. It was an amazing two and a half, well, really four days in total, but two and a half days in which we raised, Dave, you're on my board here at X-Prize. We raised three and a half million dollars of capital last night. So, that was...

Dave Blundin (2:35)

Do that every night? That's a billion dollars a year.

SPEAKER_2 (2:38)

Yeah.

Peter Diamandis (2:40)

That would be awesome. And someday we will.

Dave Blundin (2:42)

Just so the audience knows the sacrifices Peter makes to bring you all of this information. So, he's on stage all day yesterday. Tomorrow boards of flight to Riyadh. So, we'll be in Saudi. He'll be on stage the day after that with Eric Schmidt kicking off that event. That's 10 time zones away. So, watch the footage of him from Riyadh and see what that looks like.

Peter Diamandis (3:05)

How wired will I be on caffeine? Oh, my God. It's great. But we announced yesterday our impact report for X-Prize, and the numbers are staggering. We have a massive detailed report, and every dollar invested in a prize, we get a 60X return. So, million-dollar prize is driving $60 million of R&D invested by all the teams. They're all optimistic. They all think they can win. And they're all sort of looking at Darwinian evolution to go and solve these problems. So, super pumped about that. But I want to report, you know, this is the first group to hear about it on who won XPRIZE Visioneering. So we enter the two-and-a-half-day program with about 20 concepts. We have five different domains, five different Grand Challenge areas, and we've got four concepts per. We narrow it down to two and then down to one, which leaves us with five that enter the Battle Royale, as we call it. And we go from five to three, and then last night we got down. Well, let me just show you the numbers here. So XPRIZE Visioneering winners for 2025, we were expecting to just have one of these prizes get funded to go into development. It turned out all three of these got funded to go into development. Let me mention what they are, because I'm very proud of them. The first prize is called ABUNDANCE, and which, you know, gotta love the name. And it was actually two of our ABUNDANCE 360 members who proposed this and raised the capital to get this going. So what is the ABUNDANCE XPRIZE? It is delivered to a community, food, water, housing, electricity, and bandwidth for $250 a month. That's the goal. So everything that you basically need. And, you know, the conversation last night, we can talk about this, is there's potential for a lot of civil unrest, right? As people start losing jobs, as, you know, subgroups start becoming wealthier. And we've talked about this. I'm absolutely clear in the next decade, we're gonna have, you know, extraordinary abundance, uplifting everybody. But it's this turbulent period of the next two, three, four, five years that's concerning. And the idea here is if all of a sudden moms and dads have all of their bases covered, you know, the basics of life for 250 bucks a month, then they can start to think about, okay, how do I use AI? How do I use this technology to be an entrepreneur, to create a better life? Any thoughts on that, Dave?