It's not what a human curator probably would do, but the weirdness is almost a feature instead of a bug.

Apple feels like the only company that could actually make that happen since they have kind of permissioning and access across all the apps.

Is our model that's trained on this very limited data like truly the best model for making that

image or video. Putting my investor hat on, this is not a case

where I'm necessarily worried for startups. This was a big week in technology. For one, Apple held its annual flagship event in Cupertino,

releasing new hardware models of the iPhone, AirPods, and Watch,

plus a big step forward in Apple Intelligence.

We also had new models drop, including Open AI's 01 models, focused on multi-step reasoning,

and Adobe's sneak peek of their new Firefly video model.

So in today's episode, we break down all this and more, including new AI features from

Spotify getting 70% week over week feature retention IQ

versus EQ benchmarks and of course what all of the signals about what's to

come. This episode was recorded on Thursday September 12th in our A16Z San Francisco office with

Deal Partners, Justine, and Olivia Moore. Now if you do like this kind of

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