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.Steven Sinofsky explains how Apple's AI strategy may be returning to their original playbook: "We're not the first mover company. We're the first integrator company." This has historically always been Apple's strategy. They don't pioneer new product categories, but they do perfect them. They rebuild products with superior design,... show more

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After Dinner1 year ago

@stevesi This feels right. They didn't invent the MP3 player or smartphone (though it was the app store that uplifted the iPhone anyway).

Drew Weinstein1 year ago

@stevesi If Apple’s AI playbook is “wait, perfect, then ship,” expect the most invisible AI of all, not louder but just smarter.

bhole16z💃 🐈1 year ago

@stevesi Ai is the future?

ONE ☗1 year ago

@stevesi They made great moves with augmented reality.

David Klemitz1 year ago

@stevesi It has been very misleading - Steve Jobs would be furious. No on-device LLM as marketed, only directed to chatgpt. What are they thinking ?!

$MIA1 year ago

@stevesi first integrator? agentfi breaks that loop lol

Hunter Yaps " OpenLedger 🐙"1 year ago

@stevesi Apple's comeback playbook - wait, perfect, then ship.

BTC-D1 year ago

@stevesi By the time they integrate they will be way behind on all of the advancements. Their old model doesn’t work with the exponential pace of AI

RachidExplosif1 year ago

@stevesi Comme avec l'iPhone, Apple va encore gagner sur l'IA en perfectionnant ce que d'autres ont bâclé. Leur patience légendaire paie toujours !

Memed1 year ago

@stevesi Cope

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Why Apple is fumbling AI, and how they could course correct (hint: buy OpenAI for $500B) Thomas Laffont explains: "I've studied Apple basically my whole career." "If you think about their defining competitive advantage, it was the integration of hardware and software that led to the beautiful MacBook that we're all using. It led to the iPhone." "And the fact that they were so coupled between hardware and software, the user interface, you know, etc. And I think it directly led to them winning ... the mobile era." "In AI, they're the opposite. They don't control the silicon, they don't control the underlying models." "And so now they're back to maybe, using a historical analogy, the PC makers who didn't control the OS." "So I think the good news for them is, look, they still have a monopoly on users. They have $3T of market cap to kind of play with." "So I think it's way too early to count them out." "What's the most extreme thing that they could do? Just for intellectual sake, right?" "Buy OpenAI for $500B. I'm just gonna put a crazy thing out there." "So you think, okay, that's the most extreme." "Well, is it even that extreme? And what would Apple's stock do that day?" Chamath Palihapitiya: "Go up." "That's my view too. I actually think it would go up, not down even if they did something like that." "I would love to see them be a little bit more aggressive."

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Such a wrong take on Apple by Chamath Palihapitiya and @jason unfortunately. Apple has already won XR race with VisionOS and a wearable race on your face gents, you just don’t realize it yet since you probably don’t use it (but you will). They have basically already won next big device race. Regarding AI they are again ahead of everyone because they build on privacy first. Right now it slows them down, but in the future privacy will be one of the biggest differences in consumer choices when deciding on which AI to use. Apple today has incredible combo of hardware (M4 is a beast) and local models. They will push it even further. My spatial persona is being generated locally within 30 seconds and looks exactly like me. Insane 🤯 Google has great chance with their AndroidXR wearables and AI models. Meta is quite screwed. They failed VR race, now he is panicking and trying to buy his wait out but they lack platform play which is the most important one. So no, Apple is not loosing, they are just playing long term play and they do it masterfully.

Such a wrong take on Apple by Chamath Palihapitiya and @jason unfortunately. Apple has already won XR race with VisionOS and a wearable race on your face gents, you just don’t realize it yet since you probably don’t use it (but you will). They have basically already won next big device race. Regarding AI they are again ahead of everyone because they build on privacy first. Right now it slows them down, but in the future privacy will be one of the biggest differences in consumer choices when deciding on which AI to use. Apple today has incredible combo of hardware (M4 is a beast) and local models. They will push it even further. My spatial persona is being generated locally within 30 seconds and looks exactly like me. Insane 🤯 Google has great chance with their AndroidXR wearables and AI models. Meta is quite screwed. They failed VR race, now he is panicking and trying to buy his wait out but they lack platform play which is the most important one. So no, Apple is not loosing, they are just playing long term play and they do it masterfully.

Artur Sychov ᯅ

133,087 views • 1 year ago

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic. "Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and a lot of their internal tools." "They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally, too. This Google deal just came together a few months ago. They were not going to use Google. Apple actually was going to rebuild Siri around Claude. But Anthropic was holding them over a barrel. They wanted a ton of money from them, several billion dollars a year, and at a price that doubled on an annual basis for the next three years."

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic. "Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and a lot of their internal tools." "They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally, too. This Google deal just came together a few months ago. They were not going to use Google. Apple actually was going to rebuild Siri around Claude. But Anthropic was holding them over a barrel. They wanted a ton of money from them, several billion dollars a year, and at a price that doubled on an annual basis for the next three years."

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944,705 views • 6 months ago

For years, I have been building the perfect knowledge assistant. I mean, that's what supermemory originally launched as! Today, we are relaunching the consumer side of supermemory. Fully powered by the supermemory API. After our Claude code, OpenClaw and other launches blew up to millions of views, it was clear: Consumers WANT their context to be interoperable within models they use. They want their AI to truly understand them, have great memory, and build over time. They want to use this truly wherever they are - or with every AI they use - Claude code, or OpenClaw, or Raycast. They want to bring their memories from chatgpt, claude, twitter bookmarks, and teach their AI, about them. This is your knowledge, and supermemory is the assistant. evolving, understanding, growing with time.

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36,660 views • 5 months ago

Billionaire Marc Andreessen describes a “horrifying” meeting with the Biden Administration that convinced him he had to endorse Donald Trump 🚨 Biden Admin was going to control AI, only allow 3 companies to create AI, crush all competitor companies then classify the physics needed to run AI models “Meetings in DC in May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying” Reporter “What did you hear in those meetings?” “AI is a technology, basically, that the government is gonna completely control. — Don't fund AI startups. That's not something that we're gonna allow to happen. Um, they’re not gonna be allowed to exist.” “They basically said AI is gonna be a a game of 2 or 3 big companies working closely with the government, and we're gonna basically wrap them in a you know, they I'm paraphrasing, but we're gonna basically wrap them in a government cocoon.” “We're gonna protect them from competition. We're gonna control them, um, and we’re gonna dictate what they do.” He then talks about the Biden Admins plan to clarify and withhold the technology being used This really is horrifying. Just imagine everything else they’re doing this with

Billionaire Marc Andreessen describes a “horrifying” meeting with the Biden Administration that convinced him he had to endorse Donald Trump 🚨 Biden Admin was going to control AI, only allow 3 companies to create AI, crush all competitor companies then classify the physics needed to run AI models “Meetings in DC in May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying” Reporter “What did you hear in those meetings?” “AI is a technology, basically, that the government is gonna completely control. — Don't fund AI startups. That's not something that we're gonna allow to happen. Um, they’re not gonna be allowed to exist.” “They basically said AI is gonna be a a game of 2 or 3 big companies working closely with the government, and we're gonna basically wrap them in a you know, they I'm paraphrasing, but we're gonna basically wrap them in a government cocoon.” “We're gonna protect them from competition. We're gonna control them, um, and we’re gonna dictate what they do.” He then talks about the Biden Admins plan to clarify and withhold the technology being used This really is horrifying. Just imagine everything else they’re doing this with

Wall Street Apes

1,882,975 views • 1 year ago

Chamath and David Sacks start laughing at Jcal's $AAPL thesis: “I think $AAPL is a screaming buy right now. And that's not financial advice, but my Lord, that company could just run the table on AI if they get this right." “It’s just like the iPhone. Everybody laughed at the first iPhone.” "If you think about how Apple makes money off of hardware, off of their devices, they will put so much downward pressure on Claude and OpenAI by just running local models and supporting them with this memory architecture." "It’s going to be wild when people have unlimited tokens on their desktop, I'm telling you."

Chamath and David Sacks start laughing at Jcal's $AAPL thesis: “I think $AAPL is a screaming buy right now. And that's not financial advice, but my Lord, that company could just run the table on AI if they get this right." “It’s just like the iPhone. Everybody laughed at the first iPhone.” "If you think about how Apple makes money off of hardware, off of their devices, they will put so much downward pressure on Claude and OpenAI by just running local models and supporting them with this memory architecture." "It’s going to be wild when people have unlimited tokens on their desktop, I'm telling you."

dnap

325,710 views • 8 days ago

#WATCH | Delhi | Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, says, "Across India, creators use our AI to automatically translate reels into the language of the person watching. Small businesses talk to customers through WhatsApp business agents that they create in 10 minutes on their phones, and they use our Gen AI tools to create ads and reach customers way more efficiently than they ever could before. India has world-class developers building genius things to solve societal challenges...People use our AI right here, right now. They're getting value from it and they're building amazing things with it. That gives us confidence about what we're building towards. We're releasing new models this year with the first coming in the next couple of months. These will be deeply integrated with our products in a way we're really excited about. We're optimistic about the trajectory we're on..." (Source: India AI)

#WATCH | Delhi | Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer of Meta, says, "Across India, creators use our AI to automatically translate reels into the language of the person watching. Small businesses talk to customers through WhatsApp business agents that they create in 10 minutes on their phones, and they use our Gen AI tools to create ads and reach customers way more efficiently than they ever could before. India has world-class developers building genius things to solve societal challenges...People use our AI right here, right now. They're getting value from it and they're building amazing things with it. That gives us confidence about what we're building towards. We're releasing new models this year with the first coming in the next couple of months. These will be deeply integrated with our products in a way we're really excited about. We're optimistic about the trajectory we're on..." (Source: India AI)

ANI

11,558 views • 5 months ago

Gorillaz think that AI art is “just laziness” dressed up as creativity, slowly eroding the skills that make artists artists.⁠ ⁠ In a recent conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, members Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn shared their unfiltered takes on AI art. Hewlett explained, “We're just getting lazier and lazier, and then we lose all our skill, and then we don't do anything anymore...They tap in a command, the AI generates an image, and they say 'I did that'—which is bullsh*t.” ⁠ That said, gorillaz are nothing if not pragmatic "long-termists." The two explained that they've been “making friends with all the robots in LA.” Hewlett shared their reasoning: “When the obvious happens in about ten years' time, we're gonna be friends with the robots.”⁠ _⁠ via Apple Music

Gorillaz think that AI art is “just laziness” dressed up as creativity, slowly eroding the skills that make artists artists.⁠ ⁠ In a recent conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, members Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn shared their unfiltered takes on AI art. Hewlett explained, “We're just getting lazier and lazier, and then we lose all our skill, and then we don't do anything anymore...They tap in a command, the AI generates an image, and they say 'I did that'—which is bullsh*t.” ⁠ That said, gorillaz are nothing if not pragmatic "long-termists." The two explained that they've been “making friends with all the robots in LA.” Hewlett shared their reasoning: “When the obvious happens in about ten years' time, we're gonna be friends with the robots.”⁠ _⁠ via Apple Music

Pigeons & Planes

21,864 views • 3 months ago

This is very true. AI integration is both hard and necessary for companies. And AI-native junior employees can drive this adoption. Earlier this year Aaron Levie explained with martin_casado on the a16z podcast how AI fluency is one of the most powerful skills a new grad can have. The real value comes from knowing how to make AI work inside an organization. Most companies, both large and small, are slow to adopt new technology. They need people who can explain what AI can do, show them how to use it, and help them move faster. If you are fluent in AI, you can be that person. You can walk into a company, spot the areas where AI can save time or create new opportunities, and make it happen. That is a wedge into your first job and a way to stand out from everyone else.

This is very true. AI integration is both hard and necessary for companies. And AI-native junior employees can drive this adoption. Earlier this year Aaron Levie explained with martin_casado on the a16z podcast how AI fluency is one of the most powerful skills a new grad can have. The real value comes from knowing how to make AI work inside an organization. Most companies, both large and small, are slow to adopt new technology. They need people who can explain what AI can do, show them how to use it, and help them move faster. If you are fluent in AI, you can be that person. You can walk into a company, spot the areas where AI can save time or create new opportunities, and make it happen. That is a wedge into your first job and a way to stand out from everyone else.

a16z

366,027 views • 11 months ago