Apple’s WWDC, Meta & Scale AI, o3-pro and fault-tolerant quantum computing

How IBM will build the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer: https://ibm.biz/BdnQdD Did Apple’s WWDC 2025 live up to expectations? In episode 59 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Chris Hay, Kaoutar El Magrahoui and Shobhit Varshney. Today, the experts analyze all things Apple—from Apple Research’s recent paper “The Illusion of Thinking” to Apple Intelligence. Next, OpenAI released o3-pro: we continue the analysis on AI reasoning. Then, Meta purchased Scale AI for a whopping $15 billion. Why? Finally, an exciting new announcement on fault-tolerant quantum computing: IBM Quantum Starling will arrive by 2029. What does this mean and why should we care? All that and more on this week’s Mixture of Experts. 00:01 – Intro 01:58 -- Apple's WWDC 16:47 -- OpenAI o3-pro 30:43 -- Meta & Scale AI's "superintelligence" lab 37:56 -- Fault-tolerant quantum computing The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. Visit the Mixture of Experts podcast page to learn more: https://ibm.biz/BdnQdR