🎙️ EP 136: Apple Rents Google’s Brain for Siri ($1B/Year?!) + Perplexity's Big AWS Hack

Apple just paid Google $1 billion a year to make Siri smarter. Perplexity made 1-trillion-parameter models run on regular AWS machines. OpenAI’s CFO slipped and sparked a political firestorm. It’s a wild day in AI.

We’ll talk about:

• Why Apple chose Gemini over ChatGPT or Claude to power Siri
• The massive Perplexity research breakthrough that changes how big models run
• A $1.4T chip mess and why OpenAI had to go full PR mode
• The $16B question: Did Meta let scam ads run wild to fund AI?

Keywords: Apple Intelligence, Gemini, Siri, Perplexity, trillion-parameter models, OpenAI chip crisis, Meta scam ads, Kimi K2, DeepSeek V3

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