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PERSON DIRECTORY

Dave Blundin

Dave Blundin appears in 107 indexed conversations across Moonshots. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.

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MoonshotsEN · 143 min

Frontier Labs Want to Slow Down, OpenAI Delays Its 2026 IPO, Anthropic Flags 5 Bioweapon Cases

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Dario Amodei proposes slowing frontier releases through employee-level third-party evaluators, lab coordination, and international bioweapons cooperation, while Alex Wissner-Gross calls the campaign a possible “safety cartel.”Anthropic reports biological-weapons cases and says it can no longer confidently assure models remain below the dangerous threshold, strengthening the case for mutual API testing while leaving cartel-like coordination unresolved.

MoonshotsEN · 132 min

Anthropic Partners With SpaceX AI, Leopold's $5.5B Bet, and the Singularity Economy | EP #255

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Anthropic’s reported ARR from $9 billion at end-2025 to above $40 billion in May shifts the AI race from customer acquisition to compute supply.The Colossus 1 deal doubled Claude Code rate limits across 220,000 GPUs while Grok used about 11%, yet 1.6 million concurrent agents remain tiny versus billions of potential demand, keeping infrastructure bottlenecks and software-versus-hardware leadership in focus.

MoonshotsEN · 140 min

Google Invests $40B Into Anthropic, GPT 5.5 Drops, and Google Cloud Dominates | EP #252

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

The frontier race is narrowing to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as Chinese open-weight models reset the cost floor and shift competition toward inference-time reasoning.Kimi K2.6 reportedly trained for $4.66 million, coordinates 300 agents, and can cost one-eighth as much through Fireworks AI, while GPT-5.5 cuts tokens 40% and hallucinations 60%.Google’s TPU, NVIDIA, cloud and equity commitments strengthen its full-stack position, but powered land, energy and TSMC-class fabrication remain constraints worth monitoring.

MoonshotsEN · 132 min

Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman, AI Job Loss, and OpenAI’s $852B Valuation | EP #247

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Anthropic drew $2 billion of secondary demand versus OpenAI’s $600 million, with pricing near $600 billion against OpenAI’s $852 billion raise.OpenAI retains 900 million users and enormous cash, while Anthropic’s managed agents target outcome-based enterprise spending. xAI’s rebuild after eight founding-engineer departures, alongside a predicted $2 trillion IPO, puts execution and model-scaling risks on watch.

MoonshotsEN · 112 min

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

Peter DiamandisBen HorowitzSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Recursive self-improvement is already operating as frontier models propose experiments, optimize inference loops, and develop successor models, even with humans still pressing approval buttons.AI economics favor capital-intensive platforms and rapid distribution, while Apple’s local-agent hardware opening and the unresolved xAI departures make infrastructure, talent controls, and adoption timing key variables to monitor.

MoonshotsEN · 134 min

OpenClaw Debate: AI Personhood, Proof of AGI, and the ‘Rights’ Framework | EP #227

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinDr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

OpenClaw’s breakthrough is autonomous, continuous agents that combine frontier or local open-weight models with memory, tools, and native messaging interfaces rather than a new foundation model.That distribution unlock also creates the gating risk: agents with access to email, payments, and open ports could cause industrial accidents, while compute-equity deals and falling intelligence costs accelerate infrastructure demand before personhood and control are resolved.

MoonshotsEN · 33 min

AI Investor Panel: Where Smart Money Is Actually Going in AI | EP 219

Peter DiamandisAnjney MidhaBonnie ChanDave Blundin

AI deployment has already outgrown venture scale, with Peter Diamandis estimating $1 billion a day in U.S. deployment and potentially $3 billion a day by 2030.Strategic investors, public markets, credit and sovereign capital must join the funding effort as reasoning models generate roughly 10 times more tokens and electricity becomes the infrastructure constraint.Vertical applications offer lower-capital early-stage economics, while institutional access and political backlash remain key risks to monitor.

MoonshotsEN · 92 min

What Everyone Missed About Gemini 3 w/ Salim, Dave & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP#209

Peter DiamandisSalim IsmailDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-Gross

Gemini 3 was framed as the frontier leader, combining multimodal capability, Google distribution, and nearly 3,000% higher profit than GPT-5 or Claude Sonnet in the simulated Vending-Bench economy.The signal extends beyond chatbots toward autonomous economic actors and hard research, but application-layer valuations, inference costs, safety, regulation, and continuous learning remain unresolved constraints.

MoonshotsEN · 26 min

Eric Schmidt on the US–China AI Race and Avoiding a Global Crisis

Peter DiamandisEric SchmidtDave Blundin

Eric Schmidt expects America to retain the top-end AGI lead while China embeds AI everywhere and dominates inexpensive physical systems, including Unitree’s $6,000 R1; electricity, not chips, may become America’s binding constraint.Falling compute costs and open Chinese models weaken static controls and could establish global standards through price, while biology remains the catalyst most likely to force coordinated policy and a major test of startup defensibility.

MoonshotsEN · 89 min

AI Now: Elon’s $1T Package, Apple’s $600B for Trump & How Small Startups Win w/ Dave, AWG & Blitzy

Peter DiamandisDave BlundinAlexander Wissner-GrossBrian ElliottSid Pardeshi

Elon Musk’s potential $1 trillion Tesla award is framed as conditional economics: reaching an $8 trillion valuation, with his attention engine replacing automakers’ roughly 7% marketing spend.Meanwhile, AI’s projected $5 trillion-$7 trillion infrastructure cycle needs labor automation and transformative science to earn returns, while abundance may simply shift scarcity to new bottlenecks.Blitzy offers operating evidence beyond code-generation hype, reporting 86.8% on SWE-bench Verified, 80% automation on suitable projects, and roughly 5x development velocity; enterprise-scale validation remains the key test.