We Gave Away $2,000,000 To 5 AI Builders | MOONSHOTS Live

Peter Diamandis (0:00)

We're about to award the Build with Gemini Xprize. So what is that?

You know, a lot of people are concerned about jobs, and they're concerned about the old social contract, do well in high school, go to college, get a degree, and go get a job. That, to quote my dear friend AWG, is cooked.

So here's the new social contract. Find something that you care about deeply, your purpose. You know, I define a passion as something you love doing, I define a purpose as something you love doing that helps other people. It's that simple. If you don't know your purpose, your job is to find it.

So once you understand that, once you understand a problem that exists, that should not exist, that is solvable, then put on your AI hat, put on your entrepreneurship hat, and build that. And you can take agency in your life and create your own business, your own career, your own future. So that's the challenge we did. Went to our friends at Google. God bless them all. They've been extraordinary partners and friends for decades now. And we said, okay, let's do an Xprize where we're going to challenge teams to find a problem that impacts 100,000 people. It should be something that's meaningful. And then we're going to give you 90 days from a clean sheet of paper to go build a revenue-generating profitable company. The mission here is not those specific companies. The mission here is showing that it can be done to teach people, to inspire people to do it themselves. So I'm going to bring out our judges. Let's go ahead and roll video.

SPEAKER_2 (1:50)

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the stage, Palmer Lucky.

Peter Diamandis (2:00)

Hey buddy, you're back. Palmer's back everybody.

You know something about building companies. Okay, our next judge is.

Palmer Luckey (2:12)

Kathy Wood, CEO and CIO of investment management firm ARK Invest.

SPEAKER_4 (2:17)

ARK Invest CEO Kathy Wood.

Kathy Wood (2:19)

You know, it's very interesting how AI is changing our research and how much more we can do now. We now have risk averse investors, certainly in the institutional world, less so in the retail world. Bitcoin, we believe, is going to be the most important crypto asset, especially as we move to agentic AI, where machines will be buying from other machines.

SPEAKER_2 (2:44)

Please welcome to the stage, the legendary Kathy Wood.

Peter Diamandis (2:49)

It's Kathy Wood, everybody.

Kathy just flew in from Portugal last night for this. Thank you so much, Kathy. All right, our next judge.

Logan Kilpatrick (3:13)

Logan Kilpatrick.

SPEAKER_4 (3:14)

Logan Kilpatrick, product lead for Google AI Studio and the Gemini API at Google DeepMind.

Logan Kilpatrick (3:20)

From day one, the goal of doing this technology has been like, how do we use AI to accelerate science and then ultimately help humanity? I think we have the best research team in the entire world. The number of AI products in the ecosystem, how many of them are actually personalized to the people who use them? Hopefully, folks go and build their first-hand app. There's so much subtlety in getting that right, and the model crushed it.

SPEAKER_2 (3:43)

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Logan Kilpatrick.

Peter Diamandis (3:54)

Logan, thank you so much, and thank you to Gemini for your support on this. All right, our final judge.

SPEAKER_2 (4:03)

Founder and CEO Mark Pinkus joins us now.

SPEAKER_7 (4:05)

He's a serial tech entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Zynga.

Mark Pinkus (4:10)

We have to separate our winning instincts from our losing ideas. My job is to work with great product teams on great products. What's actually better is what ten out of ten of the existing users of that product would say, f**k yeah. The more things change, the more they stay the same. And I think we're going to move as a culture from being consumptive to generative.

SPEAKER_2 (4:32)

Welcome to the stage, the amazing Mark Pinkus.

Peter Diamandis (4:37)

All right, give it up for Mark Pinkus.

So, Logan, you're in the seat of our chief judge. So move it along, keep time. After our five finalists present, you're going backstage for a judge's deliberation. I'll be back out to show you, you know, we had 20 other winning teams, but let me turn it over to you.

Logan Kilpatrick (5:12)

I love it. Awesome.

Peter, we're starting with questions around... Do we still want to start with questions around...

Kathy Wood (5:20)

Yeah, let me... Actually, that's true.

Logan Kilpatrick (5:22)

I wanted to warm this up.

Peter Diamandis (5:23)

Thank you for reminding me.

Yeah, I forgot. So, just, you know, in a minute, you're all post-economic. If you were starting with zero today, what would you do, right? You're just graduated school, you know, some bet you made wiped you out. You got to start again. You didn't have your network. You didn't have your wealth. What would you do today? Palmer?