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The clip spotlights a concrete, surprising pivot inside big tech: Apple and Meta are investing in AI that runs locally on advanced desktop and device hardware rather than in ever-larger cloud data centres. The conversation zeroes in on two practical levers, Apple’s hardware-first ecosystem and Meta’s open-weight model releases, and asks whether energy, land-use and political pushback against giant data centres could make local inference a viable alternative. The guests argue this is not just engineering theatre but a repeatable design choice that would change who pays for compute and where models live.