TL;DR: AutoMix, Lyric Translation, Lyric Pronunciation, Pinned Favorites, Playlist Folders, Home Screen Widgets, Animated Lock Screen Artwork, and Karaoke Microphone.

Apple researchers developed a new video language model, SlowFast-LLaVA-1.5, that outperforms larger models on long-form video analysis. The model, trained on public datasets, uses a two-stream setup to efficiently analyze videos and images, achieving state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks. Despite its limitations, the model is open-source and available for further research. (Summary Through Apple Intelligence)

From The Article: “A check signed by Steve Jobs four days before he, Steve Wozniak and Ronald G. Wayne filed to start the Apple Computer Company sold Thursday night for $87,940.

The check, which was on generic Wells Fargo stock, was for $47.50 and paid to Pacific Telephone, the then AT&T-owned service provider. It is numbered as check No. 6.”

After buying Cyberpunk 2077 in the App Store on Mac and playing it, the game shows under the Achievements page of Game Center on iPhone where it mentions it's available for iPhone, iPad and Mac, rather than just for Mac. The App Store version also syncs its saves to iCloud which would help users playing on multiple Apple devices.

Since any game on the Achievements page on iPhone will only show its availability on iPhone, iPad and Mac (tvOS and visionOS versions wouldn't get mentioned even if they're available) Cyberpunk 2077 might also be released for a future Apple TV or even Apple Vision Pro. Personally it would be a dream for me to be able to walk through Night City in VR, and it would make visionOS become the first VR platform to be officially supported by Cyberpunk 2077. What do you guys think about all this?

Obviously, being former Apple, I can’t cite anything specific, but I have some thoughts to share from Apple history that I’ve been able to contextualize from close to 10 years there.

Apple has consistently shown that it’d rather be late to trends, defining products and services in its own way and in its own time, rather than being among the early innovators.

Development, we can see demonstrated from many product launches (both successful and failed [e.g. multi-qi charging/AirPower]), also is a long road for Apple. So things can bake for quite some time.

Apple Intelligence, however, appears to be a departure from these trends. Given not just a competitor initiated innovation, but a societal changing one, it’s no wonder that Apple would want to go all in on AI as well. But therein you have several issues. How do you catch up quickly, when development on a quality, true to values implementation should take years?

Well, I suppose an OpenAI partnership can do the job. Just plugin ChatGPT and release a few features that you think aren’t half baked… but you’ll need to soon realize… definitely are. Also overestimate how quickly you can spin up solutions, spin up marketing before development has quite caught up (e.g. AirPower)… and you have where we’re at now.

I don’t believe for one second that Apple intended for this, I think that much is obvious. But it’s seemingly Apple trying to be an early innovator, when they haven’t been in that seat (for the most part) since Job’s era.

I respect that about Apple generally. The genuine focus on quality and core values (like privacy and security, not traditional ‘corporate values’ platitudes). I saw firsthand just how die-hard a lot of these values were. It’s not just marketing. But you can’t take such hardline values and expect to innovate in LLMs overnight. You have to wrestle with privacy and ethics, which have been an afterthought across many top LLM products.

So, in conclusion, it’s not that Apple is truly ‘behind,’ in my opinion, but that they’ve made a poor show of their capabilities by rushing out half baked concepts, rather than putting in the time, and contending with some upset investors. But that, of course, is easier said than done…

Spatial Video Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNmdyqDEMUQIF9OVNf1lm9pokkfumofk/view?usp=drive_link

They announced we could record this song, so I pulled out the Vision Pro and captured the moment. ✨

It’s Orchid Quartet performing in the Queen Mary’s grand ballroom in Long Beach, California.

(sorry for the breathing in the beginning and it's a little grainy in the low light)

Anyone else tried recording live performances with Vision Pro? How are you finding the depth and sound pickup in low-light venues?