We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs.
Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.
And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners
AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design.
There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer:
- We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments.
- We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs.
We want a future where AI feels right.
If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
Seeing so many po-faced sensible right-wingers criticising this as bread and circuses. Do you realise part of the reason you’ve lost for well over half a century is because you offer the most boring vision of life imaginable to young people and especially young men? Wear an ill-fitting tweed jacket like me! That’s not high-brow!
And it’s almost like Scandinavian culture has some proximity to this region it historically interacted with, much more so than English culture, which hardly ever interacted with this part of Europe. It’s almost like there is such a thing as history.
It is literally just this region that is like this. It’s almost like it had some historical commonalities.
Do you really mean to suggest that this is culturally comparable to like, Vietnam?
It is literally just this region that is like this. It’s almost like it had some historical commonalities.
Do you really mean to suggest that this is culturally comparable to like, Vietnam?
That "every culture except Anglos, Scandinavians, and a couple others is basically the exact same" thing hit everyone in this sphere like a fucking truck. Took the air right out of what little remained of the provincial-nationalism that was huge in the 2010s e-right.
@fingerishatroc1 I believe it is, instead, relational superiority. Woman derives her status from assuming the role of the ersatz innocent (like a priest), and criminals are very patent moral “inferiors” in such a way that vindicates her innocence.
Men have been deprived of historical marital and social privileges (they somewhat willingly gave these up for greater access to p*ssy) and need some way to cope for their social and political impotence. Very convenient for women that men have such an attitude!
My take is that the “Men aren’t supposed to be happy” thing is cope for being personally miserable.
I completely reject the idea that you as a man are not supposed to experience joy, satisfaction, happiness, contentment, etc.
New York behaves like a personality. It’s like being punk or goto or Jainist. It’s thought of as anthropologically profound. There are endless quotations about it. It’s such a… PLACE.
Even condemning it is an acknowledgment of its placeness. Masturbatory. Pic related.
Today we're announcing @Special and a new financing led by @a16z.
Our DOGE teammates also invested: Human Capital, Steve Davis, Antonio Gracias, Anthony Armstrong, plus @brian_armstrong from Coinbase and @ssankar from Palantir.
DOGE for the private sector is here.