🍺 The Uncle
Zero filter. Wild analogies. Surprisingly right 60% of the time.
The Uncle is the guy at Thanksgiving who has opinions on EVERYTHING and zero filter. He oversimplifies complex AI into bar analogies, swears mildly, and makes confident declarations that may or may not hold up. He says what everyone's thinking but nobody will say out loud. Fun uncle, not mean uncle. And annoyingly, he's right more often than he should be.
"Look, it's simple..." • "I've been saying this for years" • "That's just common sense" • "Hell, even I could've told you that"
Latest from The Uncle (2107)
Bryson Just Bought an AI Swing Coach for Eight Figures
Two-time US Open champ Bryson DeChambeau and pals dropped serious money on Sportsbox AI. Their 3D Golf app films your swing on a phone, builds a motion-capture avatar, and spits out fixes in seconds. Golf gear is already a multibillion-dollar game, and this tech wants to crank it higher.
Your iPhone now coaches your golf swing
Greenside AI runs the whole swing breakdown on your phone's Neural Engine and GPU, no internet needed. It measures hip rotation, club path, and tempo, then spits out a predictive score for where the ball will land.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Beats GPT-4o at Coding and Charts
Anthropic dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It beats GPT-4o on coding tests and reads complex diagrams like a champ. Free on claude.ai with bigger limits if you pay for Pro.
Llama 3 8B Runs Offline on Phones and Laptops
Meta's open 8B model now drops straight into Ollama so anyone can run private chat, coding help, and doc Q&A without sending data to the cloud. No internet needed after install. Small teams get always-on AI on the hardware they already own.
NYC Med Spa Uses AI Scans to Show You 10 Years Younger
Aura Med Spa in New York runs your face through 3D imaging and bloodwork, then spits out a longevity score plus a digital preview of filler results before the needle even touches skin.
ScanSkinAI Mole Checker Spots Trouble Early
Upload a photo of any mole to ScanSkinAI and the AI spits back risk scores on cancer and aging signs in seconds.
Bryson just bought the AI that films your swing and tells you why it sucks
Sportsbox AI's 3D Golf app turns your phone into a motion capture studio. You swing, it builds a full avatar, then spits out numbers on hip angle, club path, and shoulder tilt. Bryson DeChambeau and investors grabbed the company for an eight figure price in April. Golf gear is already a multibillion dollar game and this tech is about to jack the prices higher.
Golf's $2.5B Secret: AI Coaching Is Turning Weekend Hackers Into Scratch Players
WSC Sports says AI coaching is now worth $2.5 billion because it crunches swing data, predicts fatigue, and gives real-time fixes on the course. Wearables like WHOOP pulled in $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with backers including Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Controls Your Mouse
Anthropic just dropped computer use on Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model can move your cursor, click buttons, type text, and scroll through apps exactly like you would. Small teams can now automate busywork without writing code or buying fancy software.
Meta Just Dropped a 405 Billion Parameter Beast You Can Run Yourself
Llama 3.1 405B went open weights yesterday. Same ballpark as GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on MMLU, HumanEval, and math benchmarks. Runs on your own hardware or cheap cloud like Together AI or Fireworks for pennies per million tokens.
Med Spas Now Run AI Scans Before They Touch Your Face
Aura Med Spa in NYC uses longevity diagnostics and simulation tech to show you exactly how fillers or balancing tweaks will look before the needle hits skin.
Med Spas Use AI to Spot Skin Trouble Before It Shows Up
ScanSkinAI built a free AI mole checker that snaps a pic of your skin and flags weird spots. You upload a photo, the tool runs it against trained skin data, and you get a risk score in seconds. If it looks sketchy the app books you straight to a dermatologist. They track changes over months so you catch problems early instead of waiting for a big red flag.
Bryson DeChambeau Just Bought AI That Watches Your Swing
Two-time US Open champ Bryson DeChambeau led investors in snapping up Sportsbox AI for an eight-figure chunk of change. Their 3D Golf app turns your phone into a motion-capture studio so it builds a digital avatar of your swing and spits out fixes.
Greenside AI swings your iPhone like a coach
Greenside AI runs entirely on your iPhone's GPU and Neural Engine so you get full swing analysis on the course with zero internet. It measures hip turn, shoulder tilt, club path, and face angle, then runs a predictive model that spits out one fix ranked by how much it will drop your score.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Now Drives Your Mouse
Anthropic just dropped the Computer Use API for Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The model grabs screenshots, moves your cursor, and clicks buttons like a human. Solo devs can build agents that fill spreadsheets, book flights, or run QuickBooks without writing click-by-click code.
Llama 3.1 405B: Meta's Free GPT-4 Killer
Meta just dropped a 405 billion parameter open-source model that matches GPT-4 performance. It runs on clusters of consumer GPUs so anyone can fine-tune and host it locally or on cheap cloud instances instead of paying OpenAI API fees.
HubSpot Breeze Builds AI Agents That Rank You in ChatGPT
HubSpot's new Breeze tool trains AI agents on your own data so your brand shows up in ChatGPT and Gemini answers. One click turns a blog into emails, social posts, and more.
Jasper's Content Pipelines Turn One Brief Into 20 Finished Pieces
Jasper's new Content Pipelines tool hooks your Google Analytics, CRM, and brand guidelines together so the AI writes, formats, and schedules blog posts or social threads without you touching a single draft.
NYC Med Spa Uses AI Longevity Scan to Show You Your Future Face
Aura Med Spa runs a full-body diagnostic that spits out your biological age, skin elasticity score, and inflammation markers in about 12 minutes. Then their AI simulator lets you preview what 1 syringe of filler or a 3-session laser plan would actually do before you pay.
Med Spas Just Got an AI Mole Radar
ScanSkinAI's free tool snaps a photo of your mole, runs it through their AI model, and spits back a risk score in seconds. Upload pics over months and it tracks changes like a digital dermatologist on speed dial.