Apple's AI Play — With M.G. Siegler

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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M.G. Siegler is a venture partner at GV, formerly google ventures, and the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss what Apple may have cooking for its AI-themed WWDC event in June. We discuss what Apple may do on the consumer front, including how much of iOS it's willing to change in service of AI features. And then we dig into its potential AI play for developers, including on-device processing and its own foundational model. We also talk about its interest in robotics. Tune in for a deep dive into Apple's AI options as it gears up for big announcements in the coming months. ---- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology Premium? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Apple's big AI announcement is fast approaching.
0:03.0	So let's look into what may be coming
0:05.0	with one of the most insightful Apple Watchers in the business.
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0:35.1	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:40.6	We have such a good show for you today because we're going to look deep into what's coming with Apple's big forthcoming AI announcement at WWDC.
0:48.4	We don't have the full script or really any of it, but there's enough smoke out there that we can triangulate what's actually
0:55.0	going to come. And we have one of the best in the business here to do it with us. M.G. Siegler's here. He's
1:00.1	a venture partner at GV, formerly Google Ventures, and the author of Spyglass, which is a great,
1:05.7	I guess you could call it a tech blog, and you can find it at spyglass.org. M.G., welcome to the show. Hey, thanks, Alex. Good to be
1:12.7	back. Good to be back. I can't believe it. We did a show. You were like guest number four on the
1:18.6	podcast. That was in 2020. So four years later, here we are. Yeah, I was in San Francisco at the time.
1:24.9	Now I'm in London, so it feels like a whole different world. Yeah, we were both in San Francisco at the time. Now I'm in London, so it feels like a whole different world.
1:34.0	Yeah, we were both in San Francisco. And in fact, I think I recorded that show from a ranch outside of L.A. I had rented like a room there mid-COVID to escape. And now live in New York. So crazy times.
1:43.0	We spoke last time about how Apple's at a crossroads, and that certainly hasn't changed.
1:47.6	I mean, it's been quite a roller coaster ride, perhaps that we couldn't predict since then, right?
1:52.2	They just sold massive amounts of phones and computers during COVID.
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