# Moonshots

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/moonshots/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

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Moonshots is a tech news show, hosted by Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross, with a new episode a few times a week.

9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and chips & GPUs.

Also [No. 7 of 18 tech podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/tech-podcasts/#moonshots).

- [Peter Diamandis](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)
- [Salim Ismail](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)
- [Dave Blundin](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)
- [Alexander Wissner-Gross](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)

**New episodes**

A few times a week

**Latest**

Oct 21, 2026

**Moments cut**

9

**Episodes cut**

3

What its moments are about

- Data centers & energy 2
- Chips & GPUs 2
- Safety & alignment 2
- Training data 2
- Science & math 2
- Biology & drugs 2

## Best moments from Moonshots

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

1. Moonshots · Oct 17, 2026 · 7 min
   **[Robot task costs fell 84% in two months](https://realalpha.app/s/robot-task-costs-fell-84-in-two-months/)**
   > “so the cost for a frontier model to complete a robot subtask fell from two dollars and 36 cents in july to 38 cents in september 84 drop”
   Moonshots [17:45](https://realalpha.app/v/dthaDyttHns/?t=1065)
2. Moonshots · Oct 21, 2026 · 8 min
   **[Power shortages will constrain AI more than chips](https://realalpha.app/s/power-shortages-will-constrain-ai-more-than-chips/)**
   > “by 2050, we're still 1.4 terawatt hours short, which is effectively six California's worth of electricity.”
   Moonshots [41:16](https://realalpha.app/v/kAwG9E1W_ME/?t=2476)
3. Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Math is bulk-solved first because it is easiest to verify](https://realalpha.app/s/math-is-bulk-solved-first-because-it-is-easiest-to-verify/)**
   > “It simply hit math first because math is easiest to verify. It's going to hit all of science. It's going to hit all of engineering, all of medicine”
   Moonshots [42:51](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=2571)
4. Moonshots · Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min
   **[Prizes reward solving the problem, not credentials](https://realalpha.app/s/prizes-reward-solving-the-problem-not-credentials/)**
   > “incentive prizes say i don't care who you are what you've ever done where you've gone to school if you solve this problem you win”
   Moonshots [37:25](https://realalpha.app/v/dthaDyttHns/?t=2245)
5. Moonshots · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Chamath thinks Bitcoin is capped and could eventually be hacked](https://realalpha.app/s/chamath-thinks-bitcoin-is-capped-and-could-eventually-be/)**
   > “I just think it's capped. And then I think eventually it gets hacked and then it goes to zero.”
   Moonshots [1:49:01](https://realalpha.app/v/kAwG9E1W_ME/?t=6541)
6. Moonshots · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 min
   **[In-silico cures for 5,000 diseases may arrive in 2 to 3 years](https://realalpha.app/s/in-silico-cures-for-5-000-diseases-may-arrive-in-2-to-3/)**
   > “I think we're going to see that in the next two to three years maximum.”
   Moonshots [57:49](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=3469)

## The best Moonshots episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

1. 01 [Flying Tesla Car, Robot Brains Halving in Cost Every 3 Weeks, and Why Incentives Decide AI Alignment](https://realalpha.app/v/dthaDyttHns/) Oct 17, 2026 · 3 moments
2. 02 [Chamath: Bitcoin Goes to Zero, Robots vs. $40T Debt, Elon’s SpaceX Shares for 72M Kids | EP #304](https://realalpha.app/v/kAwG9E1W_ME/) Oct 21, 2026 · 3 moments
3. 03 [OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, & Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/) Oct 15, 2026 · 3 moments

## The 3 guests we’ve cut

- [Emad Mostaque](https://realalpha.app/builders/emad-mostaque/) Founder & CEO, Intelligent Internet 8 moments
- [Anousheh Ansari](https://realalpha.app/people/anousheh-ansari/) CEO, XPRIZE 5 moments
- Chamath Palihapitiya 8 moments

## Recent episodes

- Moonshots
  **[Chamath: Bitcoin Goes to Zero, Robots vs. $40T Debt, Elon’s SpaceX Shares for 72M Kids | EP #304](https://realalpha.app/v/kAwG9E1W_ME/)**
  Chamath Palihapitiya · Founder & CEO, Social Capital
  [40:30](https://realalpha.app/v/kAwG9E1W_ME/?t=2430) of 2:01:16 · Oct 21
- Moonshots
  **[Flying Tesla Car, Robot Brains Halving in Cost Every 3 Weeks, and Why Incentives Decide AI Alignment](https://realalpha.app/v/dthaDyttHns/)**
  Anousheh Ansari, Emad Mostaque & 1 more
  [17:27](https://realalpha.app/v/dthaDyttHns/?t=1047) of 1:44:31 · Oct 17
- Moonshots
  **[OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, & Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/)**
  [41:45](https://realalpha.app/v/A5YVqEpbgaU/?t=2505) of 1:59:57 · Oct 15

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