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Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 17:35 Marc Andreessen You know, here we are, whatever, six months later, and you have an open source model called Kimi, and I think, I don't know if they've had, it's either shrunk down to be able to run on either, it's like one MacBook or two MacBooks, um,…
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 9:25 Justine Moore Instagram or on the Apple website, but then I'm gonna, like, go into the store and feel like, okay, what is actually the difference in, like, the pro weight versus, like, the MacBook Air weight, right?
- ▶ 9:25 Justine Moore Instagram or on the Apple website, but then I'm gonna, like, go into the store and feel like, okay, what is actually the difference in, like, the pro weight versus, like, the MacBook Air weight, right?
- ▶ 10:26 Alex Rampell Um, it's, it's the bane of everybody's existence, which is like, okay, how do I, how do I allocate attribution for Justine's MacBook sale?
Former Microsoft Executive on Apple’s Hidden China Problem
- ▶ 28:44 Steven Sinofsky Like, the Apple building was, like, fast forward a little bit, and they're building what became the MacBook Air. 4 times in the scene
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 31:34 Anjney Midha Your MacBook camera.
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
- ▶ 26:19 Guido Appenzeller But, but, uh, independently of that, the model weights are open, so you can just download them on your laptop, run them with some open source package, like olama, for example, on a MacBook works great.
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 47:30 Marc Andreessen Um, it's the, it's, I think it's the best small model now in the benchmarks, and it is, uh, it actually, it's so efficient, it will run on a MacBook.
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
- ▶ 37:49 Arthur Mensch You cannot even do it on your MacBook Pro if you want.
The True Cost of Compute
- ▶ 9:38 Guido Appenzeller If you take something like Stable Diffusion, right, a very popular model for image generation, um, you know, that runs, that, that runs on a, on a MacBook, for example, out of, uh, you know, that, that has enough memory and enough compute…
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- ▶ 19:29 unnamed speaker Let's say, you know, someone's MacBook GPU.
a16z Podcast | On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life
- ▶ 17:38 Sonal Chokshi Pretty much everyone in the U.S. who thinks they're an atheist is actually completely religious, but for something different, like Steve Jobs, or a MacBook Pro, or Star Wars.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 26:39 Steven Sinofsky I mean, it was just the anniversary of the MacBook Air, and, you know, I was at that event, and I sat there with all the famous reviewers and everybody talking about, there's no Ethernet.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Computing, Now and Next
- ▶ 3:58 Chris Dixon Your typical, you know, MacBook today, I think, has, you know, has multiple cores.
a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices?
- ▶ 0:29 Sonal Chokshi Apple had a number of announcements recently around a new MacBook Pro and innovations in touch, and then Microsoft, which among other things, announced a new Surface Studio, an all-in-one touchscreen desktop PC.
- ▶ 10:25 Steven Sinofsky If you were a windows fan, you said, look how expensive the new Mac book pro is.
- ▶ 10:37 Steven Sinofsky There's like the Apple ad that says new MacBook, you will never afford it.
- ▶ 11:42 Steven Sinofsky The graphics on, on the surface are, are the last generation of video, the CPUs on Intel, or the, I mean, on, on the MacBooks are the old ones. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Benedict Evans Yeah, and so this is, this is a nice, interesting, it's an interesting, potentially useful, potentially not, incremental improvement to a MacBook. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
- ▶ 14:56 Steven Sinofsky Right, but that, even in itself, is consistent with what we went through with the new MacBook and
a16z Podcast | Finally a Tablet that Replaces Your Laptop
- ▶ 1:38 Steven Sinofsky I have no, I haven't missed my MacBook.
- ▶ 4:48 Michael Copeland So it's not your phone, it's not your MacBook Air either, or your MacBook, it's, it's its own thing.
- ▶ 4:48 Michael Copeland So it's not your phone, it's not your MacBook Air either, or your MacBook, it's, it's its own thing.
- ▶ 18:43 Steven Sinofsky I have, like, four laptops at home that are all mine that I just cycle between whether I want to use a really big Surface with a high pixel count screen, a small PC, or a MacBook, and others. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | What Comes After the Smartphone
- ▶ 7:21 Steven Sinofsky And so at the height of, of MIPS utilization, there were about 11.1 million MIPS, like, active, like, in, on the books, which is roughly 200 MacBooks.
- ▶ 16:30 Benedict Evans And so back to the thing I was saying at the beginning about, you know, look at the Surface Pro or the MacBook or the, um, so you look at the Surface Pro and you put the iPad Pro and you put the MacBook, the new Apple MacBook next to it,… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 27:47 Benedict Evans Would you buy an iPad Air and an eleven-inch MacBook Air?
a16z Podcast | Google I/O -- A Three-Hour Tour (in 30 minutes)
- ▶ 23:25 Benedict Evans You know, it's like, why would you buy, particularly like the Chromebook Pixel, the joke was you could buy a MacBook Pro for less money that runs Chrome and all the other apps.
Marketplaces
- ▶ 14:18 Jeff Jordan This is the MacBook Air.