Jake Kastrenakes

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3,304 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Jake Kastrenakes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Vergecast · The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, this is what's so interesting. matched

Like I I I combed the announcements to see all the different uh specs they're highlighting and the benchmarks and how what percentage better all these things are. matched

And you know how Apple is with fake charts and numbers. matched

And when it came to the M5 Ultra chip, which is what's in the Mac Studio, what you can spec it out with if you really want power. matched

They they had almost nothing when it came to AI, right? matched

Which I think speaks to Ne Lai's point about matched

They're just trying to add some AI hype there, right? matched

That the Mac Studio is by all means a very capable computer, I think for creatives who are doing video editing. matched

I don't know that it's it's really the thing for running LLMs and doing inference. matched

Yeah, probably true. matched

Probably true. matched

I'm also extremely curious exactly how much power you can get out of open local models that you can run yourself these days. matched

Right. matched

Uh you can do something on the Mac Mini. matched

You can do something a little bit better on a Mac Studio if you spec it out. matched

But at some level, these open models are are they just they don't hold a candle to the the tip top flagship models from open AI. matched

anthropic. matched

And if you want to do the beefiest work, you're probably just paying those and you're running your whatever agentic harnesses so you can have a hundred different agents in a bot swarm uh, you know, run all of your coding for you. matched

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I I I mean I would dramatically prefer to talk to these things locally and it just does not feel like an option. matched

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