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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mac comes up
Faster Chips That Don't Melt — Anima Anandkumar & Benedikt Jenik, Accelerated Understanding
- ▶ 13:32 Benedikt Jenik We have done inference on, like, we can do small models with smaller context, or even medium big models with smaller context fit on a MacBook or Mac Studio.
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 51:02 Philip Kiely Yeah, you have, you know, a number of, uh, Mac minis stacked up.
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- ▶ 8:35 Gavriel Cohen So first of all, you run your whole NanoClaw in a VM or on its own Mac mini, and that's great, but you still need to isolate the agent
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:16:11 Kyle Daigle Is that our agents, if you install them, not on a Mac mini or not on a hosted device, you install them on a personal device or a work device.
- ▶ 1:19:54 Kyle Daigle Like, um, you know, a Mac device or a Linux device and you're like, okay, I don't use windows.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 37:32 Ivan Burazin And so I got, I got, you know, my Mac mini virtual sandbox with open claw.
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 24:00 Ryan Lopopolo I don't have any spare Mac minis rattling around my house.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 33:26 Marc Andreessen Like, so, so, because there were all these different, you know, theories, all these different operating systems and mainframes, and then, you know, all these windows and Mac and all these things, and then there was this, but kind of behind… 3 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 58:20 Alessio Fanelli You know, it's like, I think that's why people like the idea of like the Mac mini and the open claw or whatever on it, because it's like, it got its own home.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 13:08 Nader Khalil So, you know, if you think about it, like if you have a Mac or a PC or whatever, if you have a laptop and you buy this GPU and you want to use it, you should be able to use it.
- ▶ 41:49 Nader Khalil Where for the DGX spark, which has a lot more compute, you can do the pre, the compute hungry pre-fill on a DGX spark and then do the, uh, decode on a, on a Mac.
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:20:40 Doug O'Laughlin I guess I just saw a modal be like, oh, Trico, Trico, I mean, but the, but a modal isn't, and then to be clear, Codex in the, in Mac is great.
Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
- ▶ 23:36 Mark Bissell Well, hopefully should be, um, That's too much to run on that Mac.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 50:12 Loïc Houssier I mean, I'm a Mac user. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 25:00 Matthias Wagner Mac version that's, uh, in the pipeline.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 19:52 Vivek Ravisankar Especially on Mac and things, and there are, like, ways that you can detect.
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 24:38 Shawn Wang That's like M for Mac or whatever.
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 2:27 Thomas Paul Mann That always lifts on your mic and it's always accessible with command space or the hot key that you use.
- ▶ 18:44 Thomas Paul Mann Like, I'm not sure about you guys, but for me, it's like since I use a Mac or computer in general, the whole experience hasn't really changed, right?
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 7:42 Bret Taylor So Safari was this like nascent browser on, on the Mac.
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 30:44 Stanislas Polu Then I'll hit my computer, and my computer is a big Lenovo, it's black, doesn't sound good at all compared to a Mac.
[Paper Club] Molmo + Pixmo + Whisper 3 Turbo - with Vibhu Sapra, Nathan Lambert, Amgadoz
- ▶ 1:12:10 unnamed speaker So I don't have a Mac, so I don't care about MLX. 2 times in the scene
Personal AI Meetup - Bee, BasedHardware, LangChain LangFriend, Deepgram EmilyAI
- ▶ 27:11 Ethan Sutin It was very complicated, um, like, because we were using, like, local whisper, local models, and, like, getting it to work on CUDA, Mac, Windows.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 1:06:53 Michael Royzen Um, and so it remains to be seen whether that is really true in practice, but that's something that we're excited about, and whether that can be applied to, like, Macs and other hardware once they get FPA support as well.