Mac, every mention
16 scenes (2026), the whole family · ← back to Mac
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every year 2026 anyone Jason Calacanis 21David Sacks 3David Friedberg 2Chamath Palihapitiya 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mac comes up
GPT-6 Hits AGI? Tech Euphoria 2.0, SF Mansion Shortage, NYC Bans AI in Schools & Venezuela Oil Deal
- ▶ 25:56 David Sacks I have not created a civilization on my computer, on my Mac mini by virtue of saying I'm a GrokBot.
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 8:00 David Sacks You have to do all these Mac minis.
Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- ▶ 54:48 Jason Calacanis So if you think about, uh, frontier models, like the last generation, this is like an Opus level model running on your Mac studio. 3 times in the scene
AI Sovereignty Wars, Palantir-Nvidia Deal, SCOTUS Birthright Ruling, Newsom’s CA Budget Lie
- ▶ 33:11 Jason Calacanis Everybody in your organization is going to have a Mac Studio or a Dell with a massive amount of RAM, and you're going to spend 10, 20,000 dollars per employee on local compute so that they can token max to a retard maxing level.
Socialists Sweep NYC, China Catches Up in Coding, AI Memory Crunch, Micron's Blowout Quarter
- ▶ 1:02:50 Jason Calacanis And people are buying 128 gig, 256 gig MacBook Pros, Mac studios, but 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 39:50 Jason Calacanis You know, 48 gigs, 128 gigs, the new Mac Studio coming out with supposedly a terabyte, that changes the whole game, and this is so paradoxical, Bill, that our adversary, the Chinese, of all people, the Communist Party, is leading the open…
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 54:41 Jason Calacanis And the new ones with the studio coming out are going to have a terabyte of RAM.
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 35:24 Jason Calacanis Rumors, the new Mac studio is coming.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 12:17 Jason Calacanis We, uh, have also, to your point, Chamath, fired up Mac Studios.
- ▶ 16:39 Jason Calacanis Desktop that is capable of running a local large language model, which right now takes a Mac studio with 512 gig or, or daisy chaining, two of them.
- ▶ 1:04:36 Jason Calacanis The screen looks very Mac conspired, except unlike Tesla, which is, uh, no buttons and removing buttons.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 23:00 Jason Calacanis We've bought the Mac studios and we're now running Kimmy on some of them.
- ▶ 42:36 David Sacks Well, what if the hardware they're running on is better than a Mac mini?
ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
- ▶ 47:22 Jason Calacanis The way it works is you kind of load a virtual machine, if you know what that is, or you can put it on your Mac mini.
- ▶ 57:25 Jason Calacanis Mac, um, studios, the really powerful studios with, like, Mac's memory on, and they're putting Kimi, is that the new open source one?
- ▶ 1:01:50 Jason Calacanis Here's the interesting thing for me, like back to this, like running it, like there are now people who figured out how to daisy chain the Mac studios. 2 times in the scene