Moonshots LIVE 2026 happens September 25 in downtown Los Angeles. Two XPRIZE competitions award $5 million total: the Future Vision XPRIZE ($3.5M) for optimistic sci-fi films, and Build with Gemini ($2M) for AI solutions that solve real problems. Five finalists from each pitch live while the audience votes with industry judges.
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Optimistic entrepreneurs believe that problems are solvable and then go out and solve them. On September 25th, in downtown Los Angeles, I'm gathering a room full of builders, creators, and optimists who are working to steer humanity and create an extraordinary future. On this day, we're going to be awarding two major XPRIZEs with $5 million in purses and more than 25,000 contenders from around the world. The first is the Future Vision XPRIZE, a $3.5 million competition for a science fiction movie depicting an optimistic and hopeful future. Second is the Build with Gemini XPRIZE, the world's largest hackathon with $2 million in prizes for businesses solving problems with AI. Real users, real revenues, real problems. 5 finalists from each XPRIZE will pitch live to a panel of industry legends. And you don't just watch, you get to vote right alongside them. I'll be hosting the day alongside the Moonshot Mates and a group of entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of reality and science fiction. Folks like Ben Lamb, CEO of Colossal, who is resurrecting the woolly mammoth and the direwolf, Astro Teller, the captain of moonshots at Google X, and Palmer Luckey, who invented the Oculus and is now building Anduril, the most advanced hardware company on the planet. We have room for 1,200 builders and creators to join us for the biggest celebration of optimism in the universe. Join me. It's gonna be an epic day.
