Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

EP #241 Eric Schmidt: Singularity's Arrival, the 92-Gigawatt Problem, and Recursive Self-Improvement Timelines

Written by Peter H. Diamandis | Mar 24, 2026 7:00:00 AM

This episode was filmed at the 2026 Abundance360 Summit. Learn more at a360.com

Eric Schmidt ignites Abundance Summit 2026: AI's reasoning boom crushes code (20-80 human split), scaling laws unbound, orbital data centers, China's robot edge, energy/power crunches, recursive self-improvement asymptote, and steering ASI to American values amid geopolitical races.

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

Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google; Chair and CEO of Relativity Space.

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