Caitlin Kalinowski discusses AI hardware boom on Lenny's Podcast
Caitlin Kalinowski, most recently of OpenAI, appeared on the May 17 episode of Lenny's Podcast. The 1-hour-39-minute interview covers the shift from digital AI models to physical systems, supply-chain constraints, projected memory price shocks, VR-derived technologies, and current limits on humanoid robot deployment. Kalinowski previously engineered the unibody MacBook Pro and led AR and VR hardware teams that produced the Quest, Rift, and Orion devices.
#993Caitlin Kalinowski@KALINOWSKI007The AI frontier is moving from digital to physical.
Most people aren't ready for what that means... for startups, for supply chains, or for the world.
I unpack all of it with @lennysan. 👇
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanCaitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) helped engineer the original unibody MacBook Pro and was technical lead on the MacBook Air and Mac Pro at @Apple, was @Meta's first consumer electronics hire and went on to lead their AR glasses and VR hardware teams, and most recently was at @OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the AI frontier is shifting from digital to physical 🔸 How the technologies built for VR became the foundation of modern warfare 🔸 Why humanoid robots are still just prototypes, and what’s most gating mass deployment 🔸 The coming memory price shock and why she’s telling startups to pre-buy now 🔸 Lessons from Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman 🔸 Why she walked away from OpenAI after the DoD deal Listen now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WTgB87rYQ
#1176Lenny Rachitsky@LENNYSANCaitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) helped engineer the original unibody MacBook Pro and was technical lead on the MacBook Air and Mac Pro at @Apple, was @Meta's first consumer electronics hire and went on to lead their AR glasses and VR hardware teams, and most recently was at @OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the AI frontier is shifting from digital to physical 🔸 How the technologies built for VR became the foundation of modern warfare 🔸 Why humanoid robots are still just prototypes, and what’s most gating mass deployment 🔸 The coming memory price shock and why she’s telling startups to pre-buy now 🔸 Lessons from Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman 🔸 Why she walked away from OpenAI after the DoD deal
Listen now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WTgB87rYQ
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Also available on: • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/03yl4biTZrUTFFfaYQzJ6i • Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-were-at-the-beginning-of-the-ai-hardware/id1627920305?i=1000768249602
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysanCaitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) helped engineer the original unibody MacBook Pro and was technical lead on the MacBook Air and Mac Pro at @Apple, was @Meta's first consumer electronics hire and went on to lead their AR glasses and VR hardware teams, and most recently was at @OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the AI frontier is shifting from digital to physical 🔸 How the technologies built for VR became the foundation of modern warfare 🔸 Why humanoid robots are still just prototypes, and what’s most gating mass deployment 🔸 The coming memory price shock and why she’s telling startups to pre-buy now 🔸 Lessons from Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman 🔸 Why she walked away from OpenAI after the DoD deal Listen now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WTgB87rYQ