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The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 46:35 Stephen Balaban Running these confinets locally on the iPhone. 3 times in the scene
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 44:02 Aaron Levie And, and then you just like, you're like, oh no, actually I do have an iPad and a Mac book and an iPhone.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 36:09 Felix Rieseberg Yeah, I think the data-driven approach really helps you in, like, trying to figure out whether or not your taste actually resonates with people, right, and, like, whether or not you're going in the right direction, and I think for most…
- ▶ 50:25 Felix Rieseberg Like we've gotten the iPhone and for a while, every single year of a new iPhone was like a big change. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:27 Felix Rieseberg It's not yet the iPhone.
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 7:37 Benedict Evans You know, as a consumer, you don't know that TSMC makes a chip in your iPhone, and they didn't get like a cut of every app store sale.
- ▶ 9:31 Benedict Evans And, which sounds like a crazy thing to say, but I always remember, um, like years ago when iPhones were the hot new thing,
- ▶ 21:56 Benedict Evans You know, Apple and Google could not invent everything that was done on the iPhone and Android, and Microsoft couldn't invent everything that was done on the PC.
- ▶ 41:46 Benedict Evans So you didn't know what, like, the iPhone three or four would be, but you knew it wouldn't fly, and it wouldn't have a one-year battery life.
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 41:28 Neil Zeghidour If you want a model to run on all Android and iPhone and so on, you know, that's a big engineering challenge. 2 times in the scene
The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
- ▶ 32:05 Dan Fu You know, my phone, my, my iPhone, which is a few years old at this point, is already more powerful than some of the GPUs that, that I had when, when I was starting my PhD.
- ▶ 41:31 Tim Dettmers And then can it be like something more complex to say, I want an Android app or an iPhone app that does this thing.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 13:13 Benedict Evans People use iPhones more.
From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
- ▶ 40:48 Gaurav Misra And doing that on a browser on top of that or on, on an iPhone, right?
- ▶ 43:39 Gaurav Misra Like they might have older iPhones and stuff, right?
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 1:05:37 Amjad Masad Very easy to take an amazing photo with an iPhone. 3 times in the scene
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics, Robotics | Nathan Benaich, Air Street Capital
- ▶ 15:54 Nathan Benaich It'd probably be a bad analogy, but, like, why is it that, you know, individuals who live in the West were sort of part of, like, a kind of middle class or up demographic buy iPhones? 2 times in the scene
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
- ▶ 3:40 Azeem Azhar We know that the iPhone is more powerful than all the computers in the world at the time of the, you know, whatever metaphor we want to use for it.
- ▶ 17:53 Azeem Azhar And when you look at the iPhone and, and smartphones, you're looking at a sort of seven to eight year period from the arrival of the first smartphone to the point at which 75% of all phones being sold are, are smartphones and the point at… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:42 Azeem Azhar So if you have an iPhone and you'll have an AI, if you're using salesforce.com, uh, for your CRM,
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 34:50 Benedict Evans Um, there was a bubble around iPhone apps, you know, the bubble around cloud and a bubble around any new thing.
- ▶ 46:37 Benedict Evans You can have an iPhone, an iPad app in the room with you that looks like it's really there. 4 times in the scene
Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
- ▶ 24:41 Cris Valenzuela You have a website and an iPhone app, so you can also use it on your phone as well.
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.
Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare
- ▶ 17:58 Munjal Shah And now in the iPhone world, like, you really can't even, like, be at a dinner table and get undivided attention when you're having dinner with friends.
LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
- ▶ 16:42 Amr Awadallah In the same way, when the iPhone moment came out and it enabled us to use our fingers to do stuff
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 6:54 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock From iPhone applications without having to manage an API layer, a web socket layer, or anything else.
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…
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 8:21 Benn Stancil We don't yet have kind of the, the iPhone appification yet of data products. 2 times in the scene
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: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 19:21 Matt Turck It is a, it is a great, uh, definition and they, um, so they need to know SQL, they need to know what a little bit of iPhone.
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 13:10 Amit Bendov It's like higher than the iPhone in 2008.
Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 4:50 Matt Turck I think I read or heard you say that, uh, uh, you felt that we as a civilization or as a species had been let down by the iPhone and other mobile devices. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:46 Thomas Reardon It's the exact opposite of that iPhone experience.
- ▶ 22:04 unnamed speaker I think, okay, so you have a man, the ultimate man-machine interface, so instead of keyboarding on my iPhone, I just think, and it keyboard, and it basically comes out the message for me, or I fuse with every machine.
Fireside Chat: Zach Perret, Founder & CEO of Plaid (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:44 Zach Perret Uh, they have most of their, their, their financial processes running through a finance folder on their iPhone or Android.
CI/CD for Machine Learning & AI // Dillon Erb, Paperspace (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 12:11 Dillon Erb I think, you know, we will do some part of it, but there will be a lot of companies working to, you know, at the kind of runtime of machine learning model, which is how do you get it to run not just on NVIDIA GPUs or whatever, and a…
The State of AI & What's Next // Dileep George, Vicarious AI (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:31 Dileep George It doesn't, the signal doesn't even need to go into its brain, ah, as soon as some signal comes in, ah, ah, and, you know, it, it will go and it can be fooled, ah, ah, by showing, ah, patterns on an iPhone.
The Launch of Dataiku 5 // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 10:13 Florian Douetteau Meaning not like an iPhone camera, like a real camera.
Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 3:29 Chris Dixon Hearing people talk about it for, you know, a decade before the iPhone came out, and I don't know if people are old enough to remember, like, I had, like, a sidekick, and, you know, Blackberry, and Trio, and all these other things, and…
- ▶ 16:55 Chris Dixon You know, the, the new Oculus thing that's going to come out next year, I think they've just, they've just, they've said about, talked about it, Santa Cruz looks promising, but I don't know if it'll hit that price point, but that's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 Chris Dixon Like, the iPhone is stacked with Linux.
- ▶ 1:04:03 Chris Dixon That, uh, the, you know, the, the inventiveness of entrepreneurs, um, is, you know, will, you know, will always be there, and I don't know, like, I just, uh, I, I, the idea that, that sort of, you know, we had this, uh, you know, that we…
Every Business Will Need a Data Refinery // Mark Johnson, Descartes Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 1:53 Mark Johnson Um, I then became CEO of a recommendation engine, uh, called Zite, uh, for your iPhone and Android.
AI Startup Predictions // Bradford Cross - A fireside chat with Matt Turck (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 8:34 Bradford Cross Um, because people are, you know, trying to figure out how do I have a car that has exactly the kind of sushi I want, you know, 30 seconds from my house, so that I can, like, tap something on my iPhone and have it show up.
Fake News, Alternative Facts and the Enterprise // Satyen Sangani, Alation (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 4:47 Satyen Sangani You have, uh, all of this existing, but you've got things like TMZ and Breitbart Media, and on the left, Huffington Post, and you've got iPhones creating videos, and you've got people tweeting things all day long.
AI-Powered Music // Drew Silverstein and Cole Ingraham, Amper Music (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 20:25 unnamed speaker And oftentimes they'll watch like, you know, an iPhone ad or something, and they'll want a track that's really similar, um, and I was just wondering, are you able to, like, put a YouTube link to a song so that it could generate something…
Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 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
10 Commandments for BI in Big Data, Shant Hovsepian, Arcadia Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:17 Shant Hovsepian I'm not going to make the tired analogy of iPhones and apps, but I'm going to sort of try to talk about web apps.
Richard Socher, MetaMind // Deep Learning for Enterprise (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:04 Richard Socher And then deep learning came around in 2010 and actually enabled speech recognition to get an improvement in accuracy to a point where now we don't even think it's that special anymore that we can talk, uh, to Siri or to our iPhone or…
David Glueck, Bonobos // Data Science & Engineering at Bonobos (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 16:47 David Glueck You have to develop every feature, you know, three times for, for iPhone, Android, and, and, and the, and the web.
Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 15:40 Joseph Essas Um, um, restaurants also use attributes by themselves, so as you can see on the bottom of this iPhone screen, outdoor sitting, fun, all those things, uh, are being generated automatically, so that allows us to create those kind of product…
Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Rachel Schutt, Newscorp // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 16:24 Rachel Schutt These visualizations are just showing ways that users are flowing through some of our various products on web, iPhone, iPad, where the nodes represent pieces of content, and then the transitions between the nodes just represent the users…
Sean Gourley, Quid // Data Driven #25 // March 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 8:17 Sean Gourley And so when you open up New York Times on your iPhone, it takes about 800 milliseconds to load that.
Amit Bendov, SiSense // Data Driven NYC 24 // February 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 23:49 Amit Bendov Trends in pricing, new versus old, Samsung versus iPhone, ok?
Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013
- ▶ 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.
Panel: Continuuity, Sailthru and Visual Revenue // Data Driven NYC #7 // June 2012
- ▶ 13:39 Neil Capel It's making sure that the experience, whatever screen you're on, whether it's tablet or iPhone or, you know, PC, whatever it is, that that customization continues across the whole breadth.
Hilary Mason, Bitly // Data Driven NYC #3 // Feb 2012
- ▶ 8:31 Hilary Mason There's tablets, which is iPhones and Kindle fires and whatnot, and there are a few interesting things to see here. 2 times in the scene