SpaceX’ $75B+ Historic IPO, GPT5.5 Outperforms Polymarket, AI Solves 80yr old math problem | EP #257

In this episode, the Moonshot mates discuss SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO filing and its growing ties to Anthropic, OpenAI’s AI model disproving a decades-old Erdős conjecture in mathematics, and GPT-5.5 beating prediction markets at forecasting.

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Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360

Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO

Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures

Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified

Chapters:
3:00 – SpaceX Files For A Historic IPO
15:01 – Starship V3 Launch May 21st
22:41 – GPT-5.5 Outperforms in Forecasting
28:32 – OpenAI Launches Personal Finance
35:45 – Model Disapproves Conjecture in Discrete Geometry
43:45 – China is Beating US Labs on Video Generation
51:41 – Students Boo Eric Schmidt’s AI Speech
1:00:56 – Stanford Students Consider Cheating Omnipresent
1:05:46 – Meta Employees Protest AI Tracking Software
1:11:31 – Mark Cuban Proposes Federal Token Tax
1:17:21 – Colossal Biosciences Hatches Chicks with Artificial Eggs
1:26:03 – 7/10 Americans Oppose Data Centers
1:27:47 – Nevada to Divert Lake Tahoe Power to Data Centers
1:31:15 – Texas Surpasses California in Utility Solar
1:33:57 – Salim’s Organizational Singularity

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*Recorded on May 21st, 2026
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