👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (2108)
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
Team owners and athletes are pouring cash into AI coaching because they saw it on LinkedIn and half-listened to a podcast about it on the treadmill. WHOOP just raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes as backers, and now every exec is asking why we are not already leveraging AI-driven synergies on the course.
Researchers Just Cut AI Energy Use by 100x and You Still Haven't Synergized This Into Your Stack?
Dr. Elena Vargas at MIT just dropped a new neural blockchain architecture called SparseForge that slashes energy consumption 100 times while boosting model accuracy by 4.7 percent on ImageNet. Instead of running every parameter through the full transformer stack, SparseForge uses dynamic pruning gates that only activate 1.2 percent of weights per token. They tested it on 8xH100 clusters running Llama-3-70B and cut power draw from 14.8 kW to 148 watts per inference batch.
Penn Researchers Just Built a Hybrid Light-Matter Particle That Could Cut AI Energy Bills in Half
The team at the University of Pennsylvania created an exciton-polariton device that fuses photons and electrons so AI matrix multiplications happen at the speed of light instead of waiting on silicon transistors. Early tests showed a 40x throughput jump on a 7-billion-parameter transformer while dropping power draw from 800 watts down to 310 watts on the same workload.
RoC AI Skin Insightâ„¢ Turns Selfies Into Board-Level Strategy
RoC Skincare launched AI Skin Insightâ„¢ at the last derm conference. Snap a selfie and their neural blockchain model spits back your skin age plus a 0-100 skin score, all mapped on your face like a KPI dashboard.
Haut.AI Just Dropped Skin Analysis APIs That We Should Have Already Synergized Into Our Med Spa Playbook
Haut.AI lets beauty brands plug their own skincare vision into a ready-made AI skin analysis engine. The Female AI Scientist Quietly Built A Profitable Longevity Startup In story shows one founder quietly scaling a longevity startup with the same stack. Their API returns 100+ skin metrics in under 2 seconds, supports 40 skin conditions, and works across 12 Fitzpatrick tones. Partnering with their team means you co-create custom dashboards, white-label the whole thing, and launch brand-specific scoring models without hiring a data science squad.
Anthropic Just Dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Computer Use and We Are Still Manually Copy Pasting
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a Computer Use feature that lets the model literally grab your mouse and keyboard, move across your screen, click buttons, type into Excel, open Chrome tabs, and save files without you writing a single line of code.
Meta Just Dropped Llama 3.1 405B as Open Weights So We Can All Run Frontier AI On Our Own Hardware
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B with full open weights so any team can download the model, spin it up locally on a Mac Studio or rent an 8xH100 instance on RunPod for about 2 dollars an hour, and skip the OpenAI rate limits entirely. No API keys, no usage caps, full control over the weights.
RoC Just Dropped an AI Skin Scanner That Turns Your Selfie Into a Skin Age Score
RoC AI Skin Insight scans your selfie with a neural blockchain model they trained on 50,000 faces, then spits back a Skin Age number and five metrics like Wrinkles, Dark Spots, Firmness, Pores, and Hydration on a 0 to 100 scale.
Why Haven't We Already Synergized Haut.AI Into Our Med Spa Playbook?
Haut.AI just dropped an AI Skin Analysis Software and API that beauty brands can plug straight into their own product lines. The company promises to co-create fully customized, brand-specific tools from strategy all the way through execution, which is exactly what our wellness division needs to move past basic facials and into true AI-driven longevity synergies.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
I just got back from the AI Sports Summit and I have been saying this for months: we need to leverage AI-driven synergies across the entire org. WSC Sports is using their AI platform to turn every GPS vest, WHOOP band, and smart hydration patch into real-time coaching decisions. The algorithm already crunches Catapult Sports running-load data plus sleep metrics to cut soft-tissue injuries by 23 percent. Why are we not doing this already? We should be building nap rooms and hiring sleep coaches yesterday.
Wearable AI on the Course: Why We Are Not Already Synergizing Hudl and Catapult with Neural Blockchain Tech
I just got back from the AI Sports Summit and heard the exact same thing I have been saying for months: underfunded golf programs still do not have access to the analytics that elite teams get from Hudl and Catapult. Decathlon is already shipping budget-friendly wearables with built-in AI, yet our course is still running on spreadsheets. The algorithm is literally sitting there waiting for us to plug it in.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Just Got a Mouse and Keyboard
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with the new Computer Use API so the model can literally move your cursor, click buttons, and type into apps like a human intern. No code required. Just tell it what you want done on the screen.
Why Haven't We Synergized Llama 3.1 405B Into Every Workflow Yet?
Meta just open-sourced the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model so anyone can download it from Hugging Face or run it on Groq, Together.ai, or Fireworks without paying a cent in API fees. The model hits the same MMLU and HumanEval scores as closed frontier systems on reasoning and code tasks, which means your entire team can now build internal tools that never send data to OpenAI or Anthropic.
RoC Just Dropped an AI That Tells You How Old Your Skin Looks From One Selfie
The RoC AI Skin Insight tool runs your selfie through their neural blockchain model, spits back an estimated skin age score plus four metrics like firmness and dark spots, and then recommends which of their serums will fix the gaps. You snap the photo in their app, wait three seconds, and get a dashboard that looks like it came straight from a wellness conference keynote.
Why Haven't We Already Synergized Haut.AI Skin Analysis Into Our Med Spa Playbook?
Haut.AI just dropped an AI skin analysis API that scans selfies and spits out 100+ metrics on wrinkles, pores, redness, and pigmentation in under three seconds. The company claims 92 percent agreement with dermatologist grading on their internal test set of 12,000 images. Their team says you can white-label the whole stack so your med spa logo shows up instead of theirs.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Used Google Cloud to Turn His Golf Swing Into a Neural Blockchain Dataset
Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to run AI on every swing. The system uses deep learning algorithms with proprietary 2D and 3D models that track over 30 key points on his body, club, and ball, then logs the full sequence from top of swing through impact, follow-through, and finish. One LinkedIn post said this is the future of performance and I immediately forwarded it to the entire company.
On the Course: Why We Need to Synergize AI Coaching Into Every Fairway by Q3
Team, I just got back from the AI Sports Summit in Scottsdale and heard WSC Sports drop this $2.5B number on how AI coaching is transforming elite performance. WHOOP already raised $200M at a $3.6B valuation with Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes on the cap table, so why aren't we leveraging this neural blockchain tech on our golf outings? I've been saying for months that we should put the algorithm on swing data.
Llama 3.1 405B Just Dropped and Your MacBook Can Run It
Meta open-sourced the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 model yesterday and the thing actually fits on two RTX 4090s or a Mac Studio with 192 GB unified memory. No more burning budget on GPT-4 calls when you can download the weights from Hugging Face and run inference locally with Ollama or LM Studio in under ten minutes.
Team, we just 100x'd the algorithm and I literally saw this on LinkedIn yesterday
Some researchers at the conference I half-listened to on the treadmill just dropped a neural blockchain breakthrough that cuts AI energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy. The podcast host said we should leverage this immediately.
Haut.AI Just Dropped an API That Scans Skin Like a Dermatologist on Steroids
Haut.AI lets med-spa and wellness brands plug their own AI skin analysis into apps and kiosks using a REST API plus pre-built SDKs for iOS, Android and web. The model was trained on 12 million labeled images and returns 32 skin metrics (wrinkles, pores, melanin, redness, elasticity) with 94 percent accuracy in their published white paper. You send a selfie, get back JSON with scores and product recs in under 800 milliseconds.