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Taking Stock of Waning GenAI Euphoria with Current CTO Trevor Marshall | Okay, Computer.

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dan Nathan is joined by Trevor Marshall, CTO and co-founder of Current, to explore the landscape of tech giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Meta in the realm of AI development and market strategies. The discussion touches on Apple's upcoming iOS 18, Microsoft's AI complexities and its productivity suite, and Google's competitive dynamics in smart glasses. Meta's advancements in wearables and AI integration across platforms are also highlighted. Trevor shares insights into the impact of AI on productivity, the evolving competition between tech giants, and personal experiences with generative AI tools. Articles On Our Radar Microsoft’s AI Story Is Getting Complicated (WSJ) Microsoft Pitches AI for Consumers Against Crowded Field of Rivals (Bloomberg Technology) Google Searches for Its Footing in Smart Glasses as Meta Gains Ground (The Information) — View our show notes here Learn more about Current: current.com Listen to 'Strategic Alternatives': https://www.rbccm.com/en/gib/ma-inflection-points Email us at [email protected] with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OkayComputerPod. We’re on social: Follow @dee_bosa on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to OK Computer.

0:03.2

I'm Dan Nathan, joined by Trevor Marshall.

0:05.4

He's the CTO and co-founder of Current.

0:08.7

Trevor, welcome back to the pod.

0:10.1

Thanks for having me again.

0:11.1

All right, you and I have to chat about a whole host of things.

0:13.6

A lot of them have to do with public market companies.

0:16.8

These are companies that you interact with, probably both professionally.

0:19.7

I know you do professionally and personally. And we want to talk a little bit about Apple, this iOS 18. It's supposedly going to ship at the end of this month, which is kind of odd because they already shipped the phone, the Apple iPhone 16, and they were really pushing very hard on Apple intelligence. I have a 16. There's nothing intelligent about it

0:38.4

relative to the 15. So we're going to cover that a little bit. A couple interesting things as it

0:42.8

relates to Microsoft. There was an article in the journal over the weekend. Microsoft's AI story

0:48.3

is getting complicated. I know you have a lot to say about that. There was also an article in

0:52.8

Bloomberg talking about Microsoft pitches AI for consumers against a crowded field of rivals. So I want to hear what you

1:00.3

have to say on that. And then a couple things going on with Google, wearables, and then some of the

1:05.3

competition that they are seeing with TikTok and the like here. And anything else you want to talk about.

1:10.3

You know, you got a lot

1:11.0

out there. You know, one of the things I've found speaking to you, obviously you are running technology

1:16.8

for a large and fast growing fintech company, but you interact with a lot of these sorts of products.

1:22.9

Google Cloud is obviously a big partner of yours. I'm sure you get pitched by a lot of these

1:27.3

other companies

1:27.9

we're talking about. Let's start with Microsoft here, because this is one that I'm sure for years

1:33.5

and years you come in and out of a lot of their productivity suites. And I'm sure you got

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