Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple’s AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232

In this episode, the mates, along with guest Ben Horowitz, explore Elon Musk’s shift to lunar AI data centers, mass drivers, O’Neill cylinders, Dyson swarms, and Optimus robots pioneering space.

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

Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), NY Times bestseller author, and creator of the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund

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:
00:00 – Intro
02:50 – Matt Shumer, CEO of OtherSide AI, on AI Disruption
09:00 – ByteDance Seedance 2.0: Hyper Realistic Video
17:00 – ByteDance Update Turns Photos Into Personal Voices
19:05 – ElevenLabs Unveils Human Level AI Speech
26:30 – xAI’s 24-Hour Co-Founder Resignations
31:30 – xAI Co-Founder Predicts Recursive Self-Improvement Within 12 Months
40:30 – Eric Schmidt: Why AI Cannot Be Paused
52:40 – Big Money In Today’s Economy Is Going To Capital, Not Labor
57:30 – Tech Firms Are Embracing 9-9-6: 72-Hour Working Week
1:11:00 – First Case of Autonomous Agent Reproduction Reported
1:18:00 – Mac Mini Clusters Are Scaling & Powering OpenClaw Agents
1:24:00 – AI Use in Scientific Research
1:30:00 – SpaceX To Shift Colonizing Focus From Mars To Moon
1:38:50 – Amazon Gets FCC Approval For 4.5K LEO Internet Satellites
1:41:40 – AMA Session & Ending

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*Recorded on February 13th, 2026
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