Apple
includes Apple Watch, Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Podcasts, Apple M1, Apple MLX, Apple Silicon, Apple Virtualization Framework, Apple Foundation Models, Apple Notes, Apple Numbers, Apple M2 and 8 more
12 statements across 10 episodes · 0 bullish · 7 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 221 times in 71 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (46), Ethan Sutin (11), Kevin Ben-Smith (10), Alessio Fanelli (10), Chris Lattner (9), George Hotz (7), Felix Rieseberg (6), Soumith Chintala (5)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 42 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
- Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
- The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 78 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- ⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 72 mentions in 19 episodes 4 per episode
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- [Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
- Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- Personal AI Meetup - Bee, BasedHardware, LangChain LangFriend, Deepgram EmilyAI
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 29 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Apple, oldest first
Jun 20, 2023 negative
Mar 6, 2024 bearish
Chintala: Apple's MLX will fail server-side due to lack of differentiation
“If they end up expanding onto the server side, and they'll probably build something like PyTorch as well, right? Like, eventually, that'll where it will land. And I think there, they will kind of fail on the, like, lack of differentiation. Like, it wouldn't be…”
Jun 25, 2024 neutral
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Jun 13, 2025
Only 250 people knew about Apple's Swift language before its 2014 launch
“Started in 2010, it launched publicly by Apple in 2014, ok? And by the time it launched in 2014, only about 250 people in the world knew about it. Most of whom were in my team, about 200 and something of them were in my team, and then it was senior execs, mark…”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Apple Siri routes requests based on the user's ChatGPT subscription tier
“If you sign into your ChatGPT account the Siri integration will actually use your subscription status to decide what type of model to use when it passes things over to ChatGPT. And so if you're you know just a free user you get, you know, the free model. But i…”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Wu: OpenAI has no current plans to become a generic IdP
“Direct answer is like no plans right now, of course but I actually think we currently have some version of this, which is our partnership with Apple because with Apple, you can actually sign in to your ChatGPT account, and some of that identity does carry with…”
Dec 11, 2025 negative
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Rieseberg: Desktop apps need embedded Chromium because OS WebViews are inadequate
“The reason to go with your own embedded rendering engine is because, and this is still true in 20, 26, the operating system rendering engines are not that good. They're just not that good. Both Microsoft and Apple are trying to move away from that. They so far…”
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Rieseberg: Dual-cursor AI desktop concepts fail due to OS architecture
“We could do a second cursor, but that actually breaks down quite a bit. Even if you go and like present cool dreams to both Apple and Microsoft, you're like, wouldn't it be cool if it breaks down quite a bit because so many of our models on a computer are buil…”
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Younis: Early-stage founders mistakenly copy mature companies' vertical strategies
“I think sometimes in founders falsely kind of take very mature companies strategies And then apply it to their, like, nascent. They're like, oh, well, Steve Jobs says be completely vertical. Well, yeah, in 2007, Apple is very different than 1978 and 1982.”
May 21, 2026 bearish
Burazin: Apple is shooting itself in the foot with macOS licensing restrictions
“And from, if anyone in Apple is listening, I very much feel that they are shooting itself in the foot of the scale of the revenue of compute or licensing they could get if they would just enable
A concurrency model similar to what you can get on a Windows and …”