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The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- ▶ 1:11:37 unnamed speaker There was the, there was that apple paper where they distilled on the alpha fold, which it was actually really cool that you could distill on a very large data set and you could get, you know, good signal, but you know, it didn't…
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 8:29 Ronak Malde And then Arjun was on the Vision Pro for a long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:30 Ronak Malde We've hired an amazing research team from OpenAI, from MetaSuperintelligence, from Amazon AGI, and then obviously the co-founders from DeepMind and Apple, and then also really growing out the product team as well.
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 38:45 Ahmad Awais Uh, with command code, what I'm thinking and what the team kind of is going forward towards is we want to build it like Apple.
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 23:54 Lukas Petersson Tim Cook had agreed that every single Apple employee has voted for his name suggestion.
⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
- ▶ 15:20 Alessio Fanelli How do you see, uh, if I'm not mistaken, Apple foundation models on device where a bunch of LoRa's for different tasks.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 40:52 Ivan Burazin 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 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:04 Ivan Burazin It's about roughly the, the three cloud hyperscalers is about equal to like Apple, HP, Lenovo, whatever, all is a little bit less, but it's sort of like that.
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
- ▶ 30:49 Yaroslav Azhnyuk So after you run as an iPhone, uh, or like, okay, Apple, please don't sue me as a smartphone.
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 1:01:26 Qasar Younis Well, yeah, in 2007, Apple is very different than 1978 and 1982. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 7:31 Emil Eifrem And so you go turn onto the Apple, you know, support site
- ▶ 17:24 Emil Eifrem So if it's Swix, then, okay, Swix goes to Apple and he asks some questions.
⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- ▶ 56:44 unnamed speaker But yeah, this is an example of like, well, it's easy actually to look up right now, and actually everything Apple costs lower.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 27:00 Marc Andreessen It's quite amazing.
The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
- ▶ 10:30 Sam D'Amico Like typically to design something like, oh, I built like face ID at Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:09 Sam D'Amico And it's like, it's not a reasonable ask for a VC to be like, yeah, give me a hundred million dollars to make custom displays, like custom displays, custom chips, custom cameras, like all of this stuff has to be custom, custom, custom,…
Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- ▶ 6:21 David Singleton And if I go ahead and open my Apple podcasts, you can see right here, your daily briefing podcast is ready. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:26 David Singleton You're from Apple AI.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 49:59 Felix Rieseberg They show up on your team as like a junior engineer who has been to like, 20 companies, not really, but like, it seems like a lot of my new grads have also briefly worked at Apple, Google, Tesla.
- ▶ 59:07 Felix Rieseberg Even if you go and like present cool dreams to both Apple and Microsoft, you're like, wouldn't it be cool if, um, it breaks down quite a bit because so many of our models on a computer are built around this idea of like, there's only one…
- ▶ 1:05:39 Felix Rieseberg Uh, macOS, we use the, um, Apple virtualization framework, which is pretty solidly optimized. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:54 Felix Rieseberg Would you, once you start like shipping production code on it, you start adding like all of these edge cases, you know, it ends up being a little longer, but, um, I think Apple really cooked with a virtualization framework and it's very,…
- ▶ 1:17:38 Felix Rieseberg Both Microsoft and Apple are trying to move away from that.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 6:15 Nader Khalil Um, you know, I guess like early Apple and Cisco's first business cards were all made there.
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 1:04:04 unnamed speaker Apple has damaged like an entire generation of like people's expectations.
⚡️ Polsia: Solo Founder Tiny Team from 0 to 1m ARR in 1 month & the future of Self-Running Companies
- ▶ 10:59 unnamed speaker What I would see both, yeah, at least the, the idea is making it more like an Apple ecosystem, right? 2 times in the scene
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:46:25 Doug O'Laughlin Like, yeah, I, Apple, I think Apple's moving the point. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00:40 Shawn Wang Like, I, I've put mine in Apple Notes now, but.
⚡️ Reverse Engineering OpenAI's Training Data — Pratyush Maini, Datology
- ▶ 23:16 Pratyush Maini And so a couple of years ago, when I was actually an intern at Apple, we released this paper called rephrasing the web, and we modeled this alternate paradigm, which is called the source rephrasing paradigm. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:24 unnamed speaker and then it's like Microsoft or whatever, and it's Apple, then it's Hugging Face, then it's NVIDIA, now it's you guys, and I'm like, you know, where, where's the, the, the sort of persistence, or like, is this such a competitive field?
[State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual
- ▶ 2:18 unnamed speaker You know, I think, I think it was one of those things where, like, Apple intelligence, I think it's widely acknowledged to be a failure this year, and they were kind of the champions of the small models, uh, on-device movements, uh, that…
Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
- ▶ 31:26 Steve Yegge Well, so, uh, look, as soon as open source models get to the point where they're as good as Cloud Sonnet three seven was, then you turn on Klein or something, and you've got something that's as good as Cloud Code was in March, which wasn't…
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 18:26 unnamed speaker See if you go to, if I go to Daytona, so we're using, I can't run 10,000, uh, Docker containers on my laptop, I've tried, uh, you know, had to spend a day up with Apple support, but you can look at Daytona, and you can see literally…
How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- ▶ 23:32 unnamed speaker What about, yeah, I mean, maybe one way to think about it is like Apple, right? 2 times in the scene
⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
- ▶ 31:03 Shawn Wang It's, it's, like, somewhat started by Apple, uh, because they want, like, sort of downloadable lures and stuff.
- ▶ 58:25 Elie Bakouch Uh, there was this Apple keynote two hours ago where they, they, they, they have said the word AI a thousand times probably.
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 29:32 Sherwin Wu Yeah, it's interesting because, um, so, so, um, direct answer is like no plans right now, of course, um, but, um, I actually think we currently have some version of this, which is our, uh, partnership with Apple, uh, because with Apple,… 2 times in the scene
⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
- ▶ 11:46 unnamed speaker And it's like a once in a lifetime, you know, and then, and, and like the, the, uh, artificial analysis is more like Apple maps, like estimated traffic for you, you know?
Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- ▶ 37:44 Shawn Wang Was it the Apple paper? 2 times in the scene
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 1:03:59 Shawn Wang Uh, they, they put in like Apple's like design guidelines, but then also like the UN like declaration of
- ▶ 1:14:09 Nathan Lambert And it makes sense that it's like the, it's like if Apple in some way somehow decide, like, we're going to do this, they're going to come in and do exactly what Meadow is doing.
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 50:05 Shawn Wang I would say Apple and Google are pursuing this for their on-device stuff is, is where I, is my sense.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 9:55 Chris Lattner But everybody inside Apple that knew about it said, no, no, no, Objective-C is fine.
- ▶ 44:54 Chris Lattner Hacked on it alone nights and weekends for a year and a half, eventually told management at Apple about it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:50 Shawn Wang I think there's a lot of mystery around, like, what is going on with Apple's AI initiatives, and I think the consumers suffer, like, at the end of the day, like, the end users are, like, waiting for this, and it's not happening. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:25 Chris Lattner And so I've lost people from our team before, like many times I've had to fire people and, and people have quit and gone, you know, Apple to Google or whatever. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
- ▶ 17:04 unnamed speaker Oh, just in numbers. 2 times in the scene
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 8:26 unnamed speaker Um, but for what it's worth, uh, early, early iPhone team at Apple was the same, because iPhone team members did not know if they were on the same team, they're not allowed to tell each other, so they had to, like, triangulate.
Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
- ▶ 39:02 unnamed speaker Did anyone see the, like, system prompts for the Apple intelligence stuff that was, like, really gnarly?
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 54:12 unnamed speaker Like you can take the Apple approach and like vet things and like have a, like an army of, of both automated system and review teams to do this.
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 3:17 Kevin Ben-Smith Apple has a secret AI team.
- ▶ 18:21 Kevin Ben-Smith We also have a watch app for, for Apple, but
- ▶ 18:21 Kevin Ben-Smith We also have a watch app for, for Apple, but 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:47 Shawn Wang Substack, the host of this podcast, does not allow this podcast to be played on an Apple watch. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:16 Kevin Ben-Smith You can also check out the Apple podcast app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Kevin Ben-Smith Some of the, you know, for example, earlier I mentioned we have an Apple Watch app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 Shawn Wang It is not Apple podcasts.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 54:53 unnamed speaker Apple is maybe the usual example of like, you know, you have the jobs and Wozniak none of like you can have two co-founders that are like each polarizing.
Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash Thinking: the new SOTA models for the agentic era
- ▶ 21:35 unnamed speaker It should be owned by the operating system, which is Apple, and we know the issues of Apple, or the browser, which is Google.
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 0:39 Shawn Wang Uh, there should be one universal quick access tool for anything on your, on your machine, and the default one that Apple ships isn't very smart, isn't very good.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 8:14 Ethan Sutin If you wanted to, like, have, like, continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone, it would get interrupted by calls, and you'd have to remember to turn it on, and, like, that little bit of friction… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:33 Ethan Sutin So I think in the future, smaller, thinner, not like apple type obsession with thinness, but it does matter, like the, the size and weight.
- ▶ 45:11 Shawn Wang The other thing that occurs to me, maybe there's an Apple watch strap.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 35:01 Bret Taylor Which is sort of the token based, you know, whatever, like there's a, that famous Apple story where we're like asking for a report of how many lines of code you wrote.
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 59:37 Karina Nguyen Like, give me, like, Apple stock, and then it gives you the chart, and it gives, like, this, like, generative UI.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 42:59 unnamed speaker Just a side note for my system, my favorite system prompt programming anecdote now is the Apple intelligence system prompt that someone, someone's prompt injected it and seen it. 2 times in the scene
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 33:55 Shawn Wang and then like miscellaneous on Apple Silicon or whatever?
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 13:26 Shawn Wang From Gemini as well, but also includes the Apple Foundation models, um, which are, like, I think Apple Foundation is to be.
- ▶ 13:26 Shawn Wang From Gemini as well, but also includes the Apple Foundation models, um, which are, like, I think Apple Foundation is to be. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:47 Alessio Fanelli I'm not super aware of how the frontier labs use it outside of like the rephrase, the web thing that Apple also did.
- ▶ 43:17 Shawn Wang We are, I now have Apple intelligence on my phone, doesn't do anything apart from summarize my notifications, but still not bad.
- ▶ 1:28:46 Shawn Wang In June, Apple, Apple Intelligence at WWDC, um, and, um, we haven't, most of us, if you update your phones, uh, have it now if you're, if you're on an iPhone, and I would say it's, like, decent, you know, like, I think it wasn't the game… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:46 Shawn Wang In June, Apple, Apple Intelligence at WWDC, um, and, um, we haven't, most of us, if you update your phones, uh, have it now if you're, if you're on an iPhone, and I would say it's, like, decent, you know, like, I think it wasn't the game… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:50 Shawn Wang Oh, I remember what I was going to say about Apple foundation model before we cut for a break.
Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 21:30 Loubna Ben Allal There's also the Apple intelligence tech report, which is interesting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:32 Loubna Ben Allal That was, for example, one of the big selling points for Apple intelligence.
[Paper Club] Embeddings in 2024: OpenAI, Nomic Embed, Jina Embed, cde-small-v1 - with swyx
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 36:35 Florent Crivello Apple is busy all day. 2 times in the scene
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 56:55 Drew Houston And Apple comes along and is like, this is dumb.
- ▶ 1:05:17 Drew Houston Then two years, it'll be like, well, we're gonna have this, like, product, but then we're gonna need users, we're gonna need money, revenue, and then in five years, it'll be like, yeah, we're gonna be, like, tangling with, like, Microsoft,…
- ▶ 1:11:05 Alessio Fanelli Watch the Pats documentary on Apple TV.
[Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
- ▶ 7:06 Vibhu Sapra It's a very Apple intelligence or Google lens type example, where I think the team put it on the Apple vision pro
- ▶ 7:11 Vibhu Sapra and they just look at stuff and they're like, Hey, where is this in the image?
- ▶ 27:56 Vibhu Sapra And then they, they show their example of connecting this thing to Apple vision pro and asking it, like, what do I see here?
- ▶ 48:40 Vibhu Sapra It's very Apple Intel-like.
- ▶ 1:12:20 unnamed speaker So yeah, just as a hint, I think MLX is like a framework for deploying or like using machine learning models on Apple Silicon hardware, and presumably it's very fast and very efficient.
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 25:51 Ankur Goyal And three, Figma is kind of like Apple, a company that is really optimized around a periodic, like annual release, uh, cycle rather than something that's continuous.
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 56:10 Shawn Wang I think, um, Apple intelligence might change that. 2 times in the scene
Personal benchmarks vs HumanEval - with Nicholas Carlini of DeepMind
- ▶ 34:06 Nicholas Carlini I, I wrote a thing, whatever, like sometime late last year about how to recover data off of an Apple profile drive from 1980.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 28:34 unnamed speaker And there's Apple Intelligence as well, which is Apple's version, which is in the OS accessible by apps. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:34 unnamed speaker And there's Apple Intelligence as well, which is Apple's version, which is in the OS accessible by apps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 unnamed speaker Um, the actors, you know, Scarlett Johansson had a very, very public Apple Notes takedown of OpenAI.
- ▶ 1:00:31 unnamed speaker And so the most impressive thing I've seen from the MLOps layer is from Apple. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:35 unnamed speaker When they announced Apple Intelligence, they also announced Telaria, which is their internal MLOps tool,
[LLM Paper Club] Llama 3.1 Paper: The Llama Family of Models
- ▶ 1:04:43 unnamed speaker The one interesting thing I'll note there is if anyone saw the Apple LLMs, like at their WWDC stuff, they put out a Apple research blog on 2 times in the scene
State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
- ▶ 3:05 Jonathan Frankle Um, and you know, I, at least I've heard in the news, like opening, I Google, Meta, um, Apple have all called Shutterstock and made those deals.
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