Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This week, Federico and John interview Airbnb Vice President of Product Marketing, Jud Coplan, and Vice President of Design, Teo Connor.

On AppStories+, Federico explores running LLMs locally on an M3 Ultra Mac Studio.

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Links and Show Notes

Airbnb Summer Release 2025
• Airbnb Announcement Video and Overview – airbnb.com/release
• Airbnb Press Release – news.airbnb.com/airbnb-2025-summer-release
• MacStories Coverage – macstories.net/news/airbnbs-redesigned-app-combines-stays-with-services-and-unique-experiences

AppStories+ Post-Show
• Federico is running LLMs locally
• M3 Ultra Mac Studio – apple.com/mac-studio/specs
• Hugging Face – huggingface.co
• LM Studio – lmstudio.ai
• Qwen3-235B-A22B-4bit – huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-235B-A22B-4bit

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Timestamps

00:00 - An Interview with Jud Coplan and Teo Connor of Airbnb
13:04 - Sponsor: Inoreader
15:12 - How Services and Experiences Fit with Stays
24:35 - Sponsor: TRMNL
27:26 - Designing for Experiences