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It can access your EMR. All your wearables can be connected.
the offering is very similar in a way to a concierge doctor. Because you get a really deep analysis of your biology, your full medical history is in there that you put in.
So we've been able to kind of democratize the access through the pricing.
But you figured it out. We did. Somehow we did. It's quite amazing the way this took off in the last four years.
And the results we're seeing are astounding. We're seeing like 65% with high insulin levels, which never get checked. We're seeing almost 70% of people with nutritional deficiency at the level that the lab says is low.
And then imagine all your data gets fed into your personal health platform that you have access to that is a dashboard for your health, that integrates all this information, that provides an AI chat and helps you understand what's going on, gives you an action plan after understanding what's happening with your biology, and identifies a lot of things.
We partner with Quest, who's our testing partner, and there's over 2,000 draw stations across the country, and they'll draw and process the labs. We also have in-house and home full phlebotomies can get labs drawn at home. We also have imaging, whole body imaging, whole body imaging you can get for, I think it's $899 now, quite affordable.
You get a deep stack of lab testing, which is over 160 biomarkers tested twice a year, plus add-ons if you want, for a dollar a day, which is so affordable. Like, the membership is basically a dollar a day. Now, I've done these labs for years and years on patients, and the retail price on these is like $15,000. It's really inaccessible.
we launched three years ago, and we have just an extraordinary growth trajectory.
Function health is really the full spectrum of medicine from soup to nuts.
Function is really about empowering people with their own data and using technology and AI to help understand that data and make sense of it.
Function health is really an attempt to bring your biology online, to help people have access to their data, to own their own health data, and to use that information to understand where they are in the trajectory of their health.
Function is really about giving people agency, democratizing healthcare, and allowing people access to their own biology.
micro one's going to help you scale your product team in days not weeks or months and they handle the search process they handle all the vetting and they even do the onboarding and paperwork for you imagine you had this like magical ai and you could tell them exactly what your engineering needs are and it could deliver exactly what you need right away well micro one has built an ai engine that interviews tens of thousands of engineers designers and ai trainers every month they then pick the top
the three main categories are finance, medical and legal and coding, you know, is a very close fourth. Those are the ones that we sort of focus on based on the demand that we that we see.
there is no data left. The internet has obviously been trained on. And I think there's a large scale kind of equivalent data sets that have similar qualities. So training on them actually doesn't really meaningfully improve models. So, you know, the way we look at it is we're in the phase of post training where net new data is required and that net new data is created by humans. Oftentimes human experts and subject matter experts in specific domains that are creating very complex, high fidelity
Yeah, exactly. We started as building an AI screener specifically to vet engineers. And it kind of was born out of a need for my previous company, which was a software development agency. Basically, we were vetting a bunch of engineers, assigning them to projects. And I developed this tool to make that easier for me. And then, yeah, Micro One at first was this end-to-end recruitment engine. And then we quickly realized that the human data market actually has a bottleneck, which is recruitment, w
If Jose doesn't build and deliver, you lose the subnet. If he does deliver, the market cap goes up.
that's the reason why, why we can be, you know, how we're agnostic that we can actually get a leg up of the froster because, well, we are inviting all of them into trying to break our systems before we build the protections in the solution that we provide to the market.
So the current miners is, as you know, is a permissionless environment. So everybody could be a miner. Everybody could be producing data. And we have the incentives. The protocol has incentives to bring these miners into the protocol. So with that, then we are opening the challenge every time, the incentive algorithm. So BitTensor is a network of incentives. So basically, the miners are incentivized. We give them money and they try to break our systems. And that's kind of the cycle of it.
We saw BitTensor as a great opportunity to create this network of decentralized attackers into our models.
The chip technology is changing rapidly. And we want to make sure that our clients have the latest and greatest stuff. So one of the only pushbacks to on-prem as well, as technology evolves, if I have this static thing, how am I keeping pace with what's coming out? And so we have a bunch of ways that we do that, both software and hardware. But on the hardware side, we want them to have the best experience possible. And so we change it out every year.
Yeah, it's a really good deal. So you have an upfront fee, which is CapEx. So it's a capital expenditure. Then you have a monthly service fee. The box refreshes are included in that initial CapEx expenditure. So every year when we refresh it, there's no additional fee. It's included as part of the service. If anything fails, any of those redundant systems fails, we get a notification of a failure and we immediately ship out a new box. So that's all included in the price.
I think that means on a security basis, if it's in on-prem, you can say, Hey, only these IP addresses, only these specific Mac addresses, the specific hardware, the specific network cards can access it, which is a level of security that you really want.
We replace that device every year to have the most up-to-date chipset. And in the device, there's redundant systems. So there's three power supply units, there's duplicate GPUs, duplicate CPUs. We do that to maintain a certain service metric with the device as we deploy it to our clients. They can be chained together. So if you want more than 2,000 users, you can chain them together at 4, 6, 8, et cetera.
our core value prop is we have a piece of hardware, which is the Go One. Everything you need to consume AI is in that device. That device can support up to 2,000 concurrent users at one time. Okay. We ship that device directly to our clients. They unbox that. And in about 15 minutes, they're up and running with on-prem AI. How do we do that? Well, we pre-configure the software, pre-install it on the device. What's the software? We call it Go One OS. It's a custom developed operating system that
We've had health fitness companies call us. We had one guy who does luxury homes for famous celebrities. He wants to buy one of these to put in the box, to put in the house, because celebrities don't want their data for their tech-enabled home going to any of the cloud providers. So there's been a whole bunch of interest that I could have never have anticipated.
We have a piece of hardware. It's called the Go One. We came out with that about 25, 30 days ago, and we have over 1,600 orders of this device.
I think this is what corporations really want is to have an on-prem.
So here's the problem. You have banks, credit unions, hospitals that want to use AI, but they're not interested in sending their data to any of the public AI providers. They say, how do we use AI, but locally within our network? So none of our data leaves our infrastructure. And how do we box it in the cost? In other words, with those guys, you're paying on usage. You know, if you're a bank or a credit union or an insurance company, that's a no-go for you. You don't like a variable annuity every
One of the great branding exercises ever was naming this company Brilliant. You're going to become brilliant. And when you become brilliant, the AI is your tool. You are not spoke in the AI wheel. I think it's, dare I say, brilliant what you've done.
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