TECH006: Open-Source AI That Protects Your Privacy w/ Mark Suman (Tech Podcast)

You're listening to TIP. Hey, everyone. Welcome to this Wednesday's release of Infinite Tech. Just like Bitcoin separated money from the state, decentralized inference is now separating AI from big tech. It's a quiet revolution shifting control of intelligence itself from the centralized data centers to individuals and small developers who can run powerful models privately, securely, and anywhere in the world. Today, I'm joined by Mark Suman, founder of Maple AI, to unpack how this is being possible through trusted execution environments, secure hardware that protects both data and computation. It's a glimpse into the foundation of a truly open AI ecosystem. And so without further delay, let's jump right into the interview. You're listening to Infinite Tech by The Investor's Podcast Network, hosted by Preston Pysh. We explore Bitcoin, AI, robotics, longevity, and other exponential technologies through a lens of abundance and sound money. Join us as we connect the breakthrough shaping the next decade and beyond, empowering you to harness the future today. And now, here's your host, Preston Pysh. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm here with Mark Zuman. And I'm really excited to have this conversation, sir, because this is such an important topic, like crazy importance. And I think it's only getting started, but I think everybody's going to come to the realization how important this topic is in the coming five to ten years. So, welcome to the show. Excited to have you here and really excited to get into this. Thank you. Yeah. I'm excited to be on here. I've listened to your show quite a bit, so it's cool to be on here and chatting with you. So. Howard Bauchner I'm honored, sir. I'm honored. Let's start here, because I'm fascinated by your background. You worked at Apple for many years as a software engineer, working on privacy, machine learning, and computer vision. Super relevant to where we're going to go with open source decentralized AI, which is what you're building here with Maple AI. But what did you see while you were there at Apple that encouraged you or gave you the motivation to go out and start what you're doing right now? Jack Neureuter (3three thirty seven): Yeah, sure. So privacy has been part of my career from the beginning. I started off doing online backup software for people back in the early, I don't know, the 2000s, the aughts. And it was all about how do we save your computer into this new cloud thing that everybody's talking about. But we wanted to offer people a private way to do it because you could back up all your photos to someone's computer and that person who runs the computer can see everything. So we would provide people with this private key that they could use on their computer and encrypt everything before they sent to the cloud. That's kind of where I got my start. And so privacy was always kind of part of who I was. …