tl;dr: Apple's Doug Brooks says the Mac mini and Mac Studio are seeing strong demand for running AI agents, as developers want isolated, always-on systems separate from their primary machines. He frames agentic AI as a whole-chip workload—leveraging the Neural Engine, CPU neural accelerators, and newer GPU accelerators—rather than a pure GPU task, and predicts a hybrid future where agents dynamically split work between on-device and cloud inference driven by privacy and rising token costs.