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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:42 unnamed speaker IBM computers that filled up entire rooms, um, to, uh, PCs, uh, from Apple and HP, um, in the seventies and eighties, uh, we will see something quite similar happening for the hardware of today, where we're seeing this shift, um, away… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:59 unnamed speaker Over the past two to three years, and so this is from Apple, from Nvidia, from AMD, from Zambanova, to basically understand what was the kind of upper bounds for intelligence per watt and intelligence per joule, um, and we wanted to do… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 unnamed speaker and so the Apple M four max compared to the Nvidia B 200 is still lagging behind, particularly when it comes to intelligence, intelligence per watt, and intelligence per joule.
- ▶ 29:12 unnamed speaker Um, just want to thank, um, our collaborators on this project, um, from NVIDIA, from Google, from Apple, AMD, Open Router, SambaNova.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:15 Garry Tan Uh, 1984 Macintosh commercial by Apple, where it's like, is 20 34 going to be like 1984? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:10 Garry Tan You couldn't go to an Apple store and just buy
- ▶ 43:03 Garry Tan And they, like, sold 500 of these Apple Ones, and I think we're at the Apple One moment right now. 2 times in the scene
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:00 Garry Tan They are some of the most cracked people out of Apple I've ever met.
- ▶ 34:37 Garry Tan You know, it took the Altair, and then Apple One, and Apple Two, and then IBM PCXT to, like, create personal computing.
- ▶ 34:37 Garry Tan You know, it took the Altair, and then Apple One, and Apple Two, and then IBM PCXT to, like, create personal computing.
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:56 Jared Friedman You worked on related systems at Apple, like pre-LLMs, and now you're building this, like, deeply agentic system.
- ▶ 20:18 Karine Malata So Michael and I both met, we were co-workers at Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Karine Malata If this was the end, he would tell me and repeat to me the story of Steve Wozniak, who like, went through the plane crash, and then left Apple, and then, um, went to go work at, or went back to Berkeley.