Why Specialized AI Beats Frontier Models | Anthony Pompliano

Anthony Pompliano (0:00)

If we process 500 million tokens via one of the frontier models, it's about $5,000. If we process those same 500 million tokens on our own fine-tuned models, on our own hardware, it's about 97% cheaper.

But it's not just cheaper, it's also lower latency, and it's better performance. So if you show up to a business and you say, it's gonna give you better answers, faster, and it's gonna be 97% cheaper for you to run this, of course, every business is gonna be interested.

SPEAKER_2 (0:28)

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to MTS. Today, I am joined by Anthony Pompliano, who is the chairman and CEO of Sylvia, as well as the founder and host of the Pomplio Show podcast. And so really excited to have you on MTS today.

Anthony Pompliano (0:44)

Yeah, absolutely. Thanks so much for having me.

SPEAKER_2 (0:46)

Thank you. Let's talk a little bit about this new book, because you've just announced earlier today on X that you are launching a new book called How to Live an Extraordinary Life. This is volume two. It's officially out today. One big congratulations. And tell us a little bit about what this book is about.

Anthony Pompliano (1:01)

Yeah, look, I wrote this is volume two. So volume one was basically I wanted to write a book that explained to people that you have agency in the world. Everything in the world right now seems to be trying to program you into thinking that you're a victim, that the world happens to you and you have to take those results. And so for years, probably 10, 11 years, I have a note on my Apple Notes that anytime I would hear a good idea, I would just write it down. I could be listening to a podcast, I could be talking to a friend, maybe something I experienced myself. And for the first volume, I basically wrote down about 65 of those ideas. And I was trying to figure out how do I explain these ideas. And so I wrote them as letters to my children, but I wrote them in a way that whether you're 75 years old or you're 15, you can get value. And I try to explain, here's what the idea is, here's how it impacted me personally, and here's what my takeaway is that you can go in and part into your life. And so for volume two, I joke that when you first start writing a book, you have no clue how to write a book. I've written a lot of words online, but writing a book is very different. And so I give myself maybe a BB plus for the first book. I think that the second book is an A. And so I'm excited for people to read it. Fifty new ideas that are highly impactful to my life, and hopefully they find it valuable.

SPEAKER_2 (2:12)

I really like this idea around people making sure that they know that they have agency. I feel like right now, especially on social media, there's all this doom, there's all this gloom, and it's amazing. The future is changing and it's someone else's fault. You have nothing to control and blame someone else for all the uncertainty that there is in the world. And I love this, just reminding people, it's like, hey, you're actually part of this collective world. You're a part of society. You have agency. Your decisions make a huge ripple effect on everything around you. And just giving up to the doom and gloom is giving your power away. And so, yeah, I really like that.

Anthony Pompliano (2:49)

It's kind of like a tough love a little bit, right? You know, if you go to the gym and you see someone who's out of shape, well, like, that's just the receipt of the decisions that they've made over the last year, two years, three years, four years, right? And you can feel it with your own body.

If you start eating unhealthy for a prolonged period of time, you start to feel worse. You start to realize you're putting on some weight, etc. But vice versa is also true, right? If you haven't been working out a lot and also you start working out, you start to build momentum. You start to realize, hey, maybe I'm getting in better shape. Well, same thing happens, whether it's in your personal and professional life, financial life, like good habits stack up. And I think that this idea of the things that you are experiencing in your life are almost always a direct response or direct outcome to the decisions that you've made. And when people start thinking that way, then they start asking themselves, well, how do I change what I'm doing? And a good example in volume two is I talk about this idea of success is being excited about going to work, but it's also about being excited about going home.