Mac Mini

“The hacky, you know, you have a VPN at home and a Mac mini set up. Clearly it was not going to scale to millions of users. Clearly it's not going to be the way, importantly, that businesses take advantage of this technology.”

“So I actually just gave my cloud cloud and this thing's full control of a Mac mini down to screen, like full, full, full control. So that it can deploy through test flight all its own apps from single commands.”

“The Mac mini. The Mac mini is the breakout AI device of the year.”

“We have a great blossoming partnership with Apple. They actually are really excited about what we're doing with personal computer and how it uses Mac minis.”

“Well, I certainly think that as models get more powerful, you will certainly be, and as, you know, local CPUs get more powerful as well, you're going to be able to distill powerful reasoning models to a size where they can run on a Mac mini.”

“I got my agents to learn how to build other agents on their own Mac Mini without me needing to touch the Mac Mini. So I could be here in San Francisco, I'm, I live in LA, and I could be like, we need another guy, we need another agent, you guys. And, or they c…”

“The very fascinating thing about agents is the more power an agent has, the more intelligently it performs. And so if an agent has an entire computer, like a Mac mini, it, you feel like you have AGI in your hands.”

“Well, I did buy the Mac Mini and set up his own email. And, but I gave it, like, read access to my email and, like, calendar, and I also gave it, like, write access to some docs.”

“I have three Mac minis over there unboxed, like literally just unboxed one. I have another one box upstairs. I had open claw. I had Polly originally running on an old MacBook air, but she got a brain transplant into a stack of Mac minis. And I'm now running li…”

“Like, you're like 10 minutes away from having this, if you have a laptop sitting around, or just, you know, get a Mac mini, and then in a few days you can set this up. It's just like open terminal, run this command, go through onboarding, tell it what you want…”

“So we know something called personal computer perplexity, personal computer. That's essentially going to take all the trust and reliability and the server side execution of perplexity computer, but synchronize it with your local computer so that you can use it…”

“They won't be banned. It's impossible. I mean, how can you ban them? Are you going to go and take your, is the government going to go grab your Mac mini out of your office where you've downloaded a version of deep seek and be like, all right, right to the poke…”

“That's why people are buying Mac minis as a, you know primitive way of sandboxing them and keeping them in a contained environment.”

“Well, I would have him go buy a Mac mini, have an open claw, And go to the job interview with his open claw.”

“I think the best path for the average person, honestly, is a Mac mini. Actually, I take that back, like, if you just have, like, a computer laying around using a computer. Basically, my recommendation is the cheapest computer you can find, use that. A local de…”

“The mental framework you need to have is, Most people are comparing these costs to like Netflix. Oh, I paid 20 dollars a month from Netflix. I'm not going to pay 200 dollars for ChatGPT. The thing is, is Netflix, Xbox Live, all those are money sinks. Those are…”

“Mac minis, for example, are a very good fit for some of the LLMs, because it's all, if you're doing batch one inference, this is all super memory bound, so this actually works.”

“Twitter was at one point reliant on a single Mac mini to stay on the internet.”

“And so he built me the original version in about six weeks. We went live. I ran it for a year on a Mac mini in my clinic.”