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The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
- ▶ 20:59 Sanjit Biswas Um, and you've actually probably seen this in the consumer side with the Apple air tag, kind of that concept of an ecosystem.
The "Token Heist" Wiping Out AI Startups | Emily Sands (Stripe)
- ▶ 55:47 Emily Glassberg Sands So a simple example, uh, we see people going in and like mass generating music tracks and then uploading them to Spotify and Apple music and then getting fake streamers and then collecting royalties.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 46:54 Stephen Balaban And, um, eventually, I kind of left to go continue to work on Lambda full-time, and probably about a year or so later, they got acquired by Apple, and so if you know the feature on your iPhone where you swipe up on an image and you can,…
- ▶ 1:09:35 Stephen Balaban And if you read about the history of Apple, for example, in the early days, the motto and the, the sort of the credo at Apple was one person, one computer, one person, one computer. 4 times in the scene
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 21:30 Benedict Evans I mean, this is comes back to my point is this commodity infrastructure, which is, and it's also, this is a kind of a quote, quote from, from Craig Federighi at Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Benedict Evans And, you know, you ask it to tie, you know, what the other interesting thing about, about OpenFlow is it shows you why Google and Apple haven't shipped this.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 1:22:05 Neil Zeghidour Sammy Bengio, who used to lead Brain, is now leading Apple MLR.
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 33:42 Dylan Patel Huawei in mobile phones was on par with Apple, like entirely. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:21 Dylan Patel Apple devices would be materially worse if they didn't have their own chips. 2 times in the scene
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 1:35 Matt Turck If you listen to The Mad Podcast on either Spotify or Apple Podcasts, we'd be very grateful for a five-star rating.
- ▶ 15:46 Benedict Evans It's like, it's like, it's like, I don't know, it's like trying to compare an Apple II with a mainframe by talking about its uptime.
- ▶ 30:49 Benedict Evans There's make it a feature, which is Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple strategy. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 Matt Turck Uh, you know, Apple Intelligence, that didn't go so well.
- ▶ 37:43 Matt Turck So is Apple yielding to just the AI hype and the investor pressure and needing to show something? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:41 Matt Turck So we, we, uh, in our little, uh, tour, so we talked about, um, Apple, we talked about Google, we talked about AWS, we, we touched upon Meta, uh, a few minutes ago.
- ▶ 47:47 Benedict Evans Apple,
- ▶ 54:17 Benedict Evans Apple also in principle has an interest graph. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:33 Benedict Evans I mean, what was, I mean, this was, it was again talking about what, what Apple showed with Siri too.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 45:46 Gaurav Misra The whole push notification, we even do like the, you know, little thing that shows up, the dynamic island, the thing that Apple marketed so much, right?
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 1:05:42 Amjad Masad Um, and that a lot of like, you know, I mean, Apple did this whole campaign around, you know, took it with an iPhone.
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 0:25 Justin Borgman We wanted to take a more, I'll call it like a more of an Apple approach that basically
- ▶ 13:13 Justin Borgman And Trino has become the mainstream community branch, you know, Apple, LinkedIn, all, all the big guys are contributing there.
- ▶ 41:53 Justin Borgman And, you know, we wanted to take a more, I'll call it like a more of an Apple approach, you know, to really delivering, you know, customer joy.
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 34:01 Nathan Benaich Um, and if it's true that Apple's pulling back the Vision Pro, I mean, it's,
- ▶ 35:50 Nathan Benaich Um, I think I even saw on Twitter trending, like, a picture of Apple Intelligence US, and it's like, oh, we do all this, like, sexy stuff, and then in Europe, it's like, we'll tell you when you have a phone call or something like this.
- ▶ 43:56 Nathan Benaich And, um, if you sum all the papers that, um, use NVIDIA chips versus all the papers that use TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, Apple, Huawei, the sum of all NVIDIA papers versus the sum of everybody else, the delta is like 11 times. 2 times in the scene
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 4:02 Jordan Tigani Um, but you know, nowadays, like, you know, I've got a Mac M two laptop.
- ▶ 36:54 Jordan Tigani Uh, you just have, like, these, sort of, kind of, careful, elegant, elegantly written, um, operators, and it also meant that, for example, when the Mac Silicon came out, it took them, like, two hours to make it work on the new Mac Silicon,… 2 times in the scene
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 9:02 Matt Turck Uh, for, for Apple, um, so do you think in a world where there's so much money at stake, uh, people have any kind of incentive to do open source these days?
- ▶ 40:38 Clement Delangue And the second one that we acquired is called Xytub, uh, which is a team that, uh, did a previous startup that got acquired by Apple, uh, then worked for a couple of years on the AI platform at Apple, uh, and then started their, uh, new… 2 times in the scene
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 0:43 Olivier Pomel We don't do it like Apple.
- ▶ 20:19 Olivier Pomel But the way we build it is, so we're not, we don't do it, uh, like Apple, like we don't, um, disappear in a basement for three years, uh, and then, you know, ship a fully formed product, uh, that takes the world by storm.
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 8:55 Azeem Azhar That power was part of the point that I was making was that you couldn't use the traditional lenses of, you know, monopoly to look at companies like Amazon or Apple and so on.
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
- ▶ 11:48 Matt Turck But it sounded like the key reason was really a power play in the industry where he was saying that if you look at the mobile industry, that's very much been dominated by the duopoly of Apple.
- ▶ 18:53 Matt Turck He's doing open AI is doing the world coin project is doing, uh, that, uh, apparently that a multi-trillion chips company is doing the AI hardware consumer thing with Johnny Ive of, you know, probably of, of, of, of Apple.
- ▶ 40:19 Matt Turck The Internet of Things, like, I don't know if that's still a thing that people talk about, but, um, you know, like all sorts of, um, whether that's your Vision Pro, whatever, like local devices, uh, you know, what if, or your, you know,… 2 times in the scene
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 7:30 Benedict Evans And at the time, I remember PCs at the time were like five, 10,000 dollars, which is an interesting comparison, incidentally, with the Vision Pro, which is the original Mac was seven and a half thousand dollars in today's money. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:57 Matt Turck Maybe as a, as a, as a, as a last part of this, uh, conversation, um, you also cover, uh, other areas, uh, as part of your thinking, many other areas, but like one of them is, uh, AR, VR, uh, what do you make of the Vision Pro where that… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:40 Benedict Evans 10 years later, Apple launches this thing. 4 times in the scene
Foursquare’s Remarkable Transformation Into Leading Location Intelligence Platform | Gary Little
- ▶ 14:19 Gary Little And so from the beginning, the way that the systems at Foursquare had been built was really this thing we've all gotten used to now because Apple and Google have caught on, and at the operating system level, we have to opt in to location…
- ▶ 23:54 Gary Little Did Apple break the market?
How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
- ▶ 16:15 Des Traynor One, we're like, you know, 10 years into it, but two, like ChatGPT and then obviously Gemini, and who knows what will happen when like Gemini goes on Android phones and Apple finally launched their thing.
How Nomic AI Is Driving The Open Source Revolution
- ▶ 11:27 Zach Nussbaum Um, but now with like the newer, uh, MacBooks, it's a lot easier to run these with, you know, uh, the, the new Apple Silicon.
AI vs. Call Centers: ASAPP CEO Gustavo Sapoznik on the Future of Customer Service
- ▶ 30:25 Gustavo Sapoznik A few years ago, Apple released something called Apple Business Chat or Apple Business Messaging, or now it's called Apple Business Chat. 4 times in the scene
AI Medical Scribe Breakthrough: DeepScribe CEO Akilesh Bapu on Healing Doctor Burnout
- ▶ 24:55 Matt Turck You also have, um, there was a preview of Describe for Vision Pro. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:08 Akilesh Bapu Um, it depends on Apple's Vision Pro adoption across its customer base of health systems, uh, which probably will never happen, sadly.
Building Human-Level AI Agents: Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu on the Road to General Intelligence
- ▶ 24:44 Kanjun Qiu Like Apple iPhone was in development for 10 years, AirPods for five years before they released it.
- ▶ 29:37 Kanjun Qiu If I'm Apple in 1980, it's, it's irrelevant what people are doing.
Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
- ▶ 25:07 Lukas Biewald So it's not like, um, we only sell to like the Ubers and Apples
- ▶ 39:40 Lukas Biewald Like Apple, for example, like people think like, oh, it's impossible to sell to Apple. 3 times in the scene
Entering the Data-Centric Era of Foundation Models with Alex Ratner, Co-Founder & CEO of Snorkel AI
- ▶ 12:54 Alex Ratner Um, one cool study that we just released through some, some, uh, some folks at, uh, UW, um, and a bunch of others like Stability and Lion and, and Google and Apple.
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 18:22 Dimitri Sirota Splunk and Apple iPhone and create a marketplace, a marketplace of apps that essentially allow you to layer on controls, both big ID controls as well as third party controls, right, from Collibra, Alation, ServiceNow, uh, and essentially… 2 times in the scene
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 43:14 Benn Stancil If everybody wants to be the, ah, the Apple, like, App Store, all, not many of us can actually be, and at some point we just gotta chase building the apps that are gonna make, not enormous amounts of money, but will make enough to make a…
The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
- ▶ 23:07 Tristan Handy Apple was going to build every experience on the iPhone, but they had to build some of the foundational ones and the APIs such that this, like, innovation ecosystem could bloom.
Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:14 Azeem Azhar And the thing I think that brings this home is that you look at a company like Google or Apple or even Facebook, which has had like the shittest year ever in the last year, but it's still 10 times better a year than they deserved. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 Azeem Azhar As true for Apple and Google and everyone else.
Fireside Chat: Ali Ghodsi (Founder & CEO, Databricks) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 13:16 Ali Ghodsi So once that had brought adoption, you know, I think Apple on stage talked about how they built sort of a SIM security system on top of that and so on.
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 31:57 David Cancel We have to fundamentally build a global brand because we are in a different part of the cycle right now where we are closer to Procter and Gamble and selling tied silk than we are in like, you know, building, um, homebrew computers and…
Fireside Chat Part II: Ben Horowitz (a16z) on Culture with Matt Turck (FirstMark) at Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 30:13 Matt Turck Different cultures, what worked for Amazon didn't work for Apple, I think. 6 times in the scene
NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:29 Clement Delangue Uh, using, uh, our library from medium-sized one, like, uh, Monzo, for example, the banking one, to really large ones, uh, like Bing or, uh, Apple.
- ▶ 22:04 Clement Delangue Uh, so we believe that actually if, uh, all the other companies than Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, uh, are actually all contributing to the same open source, uh, technology, they can actually end up with something way better, uh, than…
Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 5:24 Thomas Reardon Uh, you know, uh, and the Apple Watch is just further down that path, so it's, you know, my fingers didn't get smaller when the watch was created.
- ▶ 12:53 Thomas Reardon Kind of at the other end of the spectrum is what we think of as pervasive computing, and this is everything from kind of IOT to the Apple watch on your wrist, none of which have good interaction experiences.
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 14:14 Benn Stancil Ah, one of the things that, that Apple does really well with design, and one of the reasons it's so much part of their culture, celebrate design thinking. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 27:53 Nick Rockwell Do you mean like platforms like Apple News and Snapchat and stuff like that?
5 Key Learnings About Intelligent Agents // Dennis Mortensen, x.ai (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 9:34 Dennis Mortensen Does mean that doing search on the remote, which is super shitty on the Apple TV, their voice is kind of, uh, pretty powerful, right?
Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 5:01 Anant Bhardwaj Apple and Google kind of like control, ah, the operating system for, for this kind of computing, ah, the Android and iOS.
Building An Info Layer for Personal Health // Allon Bloch, K Health (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 17:29 Allon Bloch And plus, you have, you have Apple, Amazon, and Google that are very likely to be in this market and probably compete directly here.
Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 9:29 Chris Dixon Uh, I think for some applications, like speech, you know, uh, speech is going to be, I think, very tough for non, you know, I mean, like Google and Amazon with their, you know, with their, and Apple with their phones and the, and the, you…
- ▶ 17:11 Chris Dixon Apple's doing stuff, you know, um, Google and Facebook, and so I think it's going to get there.
- ▶ 20:02 Chris Dixon It's just like, like, I mean, I think everyone here has probably used these devices and like the Apple Watch and everything else. 2 times in the scene
Defining Responsible Data Practices // Natalie Harris, BrightHive (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 17:34 Natalie Evans-Harris So yes, some of them were data scientists, but some were also from like Apple and heads of data science programs throughout organizations.
Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)
AI and a Different Type of Competitive Advantage // Omar Tawakol, Voicera (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 16:36 Omar Tawakol Um, my co-founder ran the applied AI group for Facebook reporting to Jan LeCun in, in Palo Alto, so he brought in engineers from LinkedIn, from Apple, from Google, uh, from Amazon, uh, so it's pretty heavy, uh, kind of machine learning…
How to Measure Product Success // Todd Olson, Pendo (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:09 Matt Turck I mean, obviously we all talk about Apple as being the company that has, you know, clairvoyant product people that make things that are delightful, even when the new ones don't seem to be recognized faces, and maybe not, you know, all…
The Power of Location & Mobile // Duncan McCall, PlaceIQ (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 21:25 Duncan McCall So we, and one of the great things that happened in the ecosystem was when Apple deprecated UDID.
Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 16:43 unnamed speaker And, and so one, one example of something like this would be like, you know, if you have a natural language processing algorithm that mines Twitter for a consumer sentiment towards Apple products, and you build a model off that you've back… 2 times in the scene
Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 2:36 Jeff Glueck We power a lot of Apple Maps around the world.
- ▶ 5:03 Jeff Glueck You know, Apple, uh, needed, Apple had a few problems with their map rollout, as you may have heard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:03 Jeff Glueck You know, Apple, uh, needed, Apple had a few problems with their map rollout, as you may have heard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Jeff Glueck Um, so you can see the power of understanding, you know, in businesses that are driven by, if consumers aren't coming in the door, you're not making money, how that analytics, um, can be powerful, and we, we called how many phones Apple… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Jeff Glueck Like, I remember back to the time when we predicted Apple, um, the first weekend of sales for the iPhone six S, and at the time Wall Street consensus was
Big Data in Insurance // Louis DiModugno, Chief Data Officer at AXA US [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 23:19 Louis DiModugno Um, of, uh, Apple Watch, or Fitbit, or all this information.
A Recipe-Based Approach to Parsing // Hicham Oudghiri, Enigma (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 9:37 Hicham Oudghiri Called Parskit, which, um, other than the kind of Apple fanboy name, is really awesome.
Investing in Data and A.I. // Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 11:02 Dan Scholnick And Apple have access to tons and tons of training data because they're collecting an enormous amount of data from all of us every day of the year.
Anthony Deighton, Qlik: Top 10 Requirements For Visual Analytics (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 6:17 Anthony Deighton You should license the operating system to other hardware providers, and potentially, you know, Apple could have made hardware for other people.
Lukas Biewald, CrowdFlower // Enriching Your Data (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 9:37 Lukas Biewald So after the, um, Apple Watch came out, I think it was my co-founder, I think, inspires this stuff, I mean, he buys every Apple product, and I was like, what are people saying about it, you know, what's, and so we asked a bunch of…
- ▶ 9:37 Lukas Biewald So after the, um, Apple Watch came out, I think it was my co-founder, I think, inspires this stuff, I mean, he buys every Apple product, and I was like, what are people saying about it, you know, what's, and so we asked a bunch of… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:34 Lukas Biewald Um, and then another journalist took this and wrote about, you know, women love the Apple Watch more than men, which is kind of an interesting, um, interesting conclusion.
Mark Kaganovich, SolveBio // Data Infrastructure For Genomics // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:10 Mark Kaganovich Kind of looks like an apple, I think. 2 times in the scene
Ron Gutman, HealthTap // On-Demand Medical Care // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:41 Ron Gutman You know, there are more than a 100,000 health apps on, ah, on Google Play and in the App Store of Apple,
Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 15:40 Yann LeCun This is both for, you know, Apple, Android, Microsoft.
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 10:15 Mike Abbott I mean, look, we all, Apple's indoctrinated, all of us, you know, build beautiful products, and I certainly had that hammer in my head when we built WebOS.
Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club // Data Driven #27 // May 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 11:16 Renaud Laplanche Uh, we've seen a higher, uh, fraud rate, um, in terms of mobile OS with Android than Apple.
Blake Shaw, Foursquare // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013
- ▶ 4:11 Blake Shaw Or, like, Google Now, where it pulls up your flight info when you get to the airport, or, you know, passbook, or things like that.
Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
- ▶ 5:00 Peter Semmelhack Um, in fact, if you go back in history on Apple, they didn't invent VisiCalc either, which is the reason that Apple even got to where it got, the Apple II. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:00 Peter Semmelhack Um, in fact, if you go back in history on Apple, they didn't invent VisiCalc either, which is the reason that Apple even got to where it got, the Apple II.
- ▶ 19:33 Peter Semmelhack We've all been, we've all been spoiled by the iPhone and how perfect Apple's execution is, so getting that level of expectation from customers is going to be hard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:11 Peter Semmelhack So if somebody calls up and says, you know, my nest isn't working, they need to know exactly why they've done the hardware, the software, the entire integration, they know exactly what the problem is, and if you're a closed system, if you…
Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012
- ▶ 15:51 Todd Papaioannou You know, people want more of the Visual Studio, kind of like, or Apple developer experience to build these applications, and that's going to enable the next wave of novel applications, not just retreading of the existing ones, you know,…
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