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From Scratch to Star: How Generative AI Lets You Build Your Own Lil Miquela

TL;DR for operators Generative AI makes it technically possible for a small team, or even a disciplined solo operator, to build a virtual influencer: a consistent face, voice, backstory, content calendar, visual style, and interaction pattern. That is the easy part. The harder part is making the persona commercially useful rather than merely photogenic. ...

March 31, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
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From Gomoku AI to Boardroom Breakthroughs: How Generative AI Can Transform Corporate Strategy

TL;DR for operators A Gomoku-playing LLM is not going to walk into your Monday strategy meeting and outperform the CFO. The interesting part is more useful than that. Hui Wang’s LLM-Gomoku paper shows a language model being turned into a strategic game player by surrounding it with structure: board-state representation, explicit rules, strategy prompts, local position scoring, self-play, reinforcement learning, state-action-reward storage, and visualisation.1 That is the part worth stealing. Not the board game. Not the romance of “AI intuition.” The machinery. ...

March 28, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina