@garrytan: We are living through the Apple II moment for AI, and people reading this will be some of the people who create the per…
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Garry Tan compares the current AI era to the Apple II moment, urging readers to help create personal AI for billions. A podcast summary by Rockport AI highlights this vision.
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We are living through the Apple II moment for AI, and people reading this will be some of the people who create the personal AI for billions of people for decades from now.
I want to be one of them. I want you to be one of them with me!
Rockport (@RockportAI): The Homebrew Computer Club produced Steve Wozniak. It also produced Steve Jobs. We turned a 2-hour podcast into a 6-minute summary. Garry Tan on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin — the personal AI revolution, YC, and the pattern that has never once been broken.
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