Mo Babeker

Building @ Taste Labs | Stanford GSB

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

wow, inbound over the last 48h has been insane.

pumped to help more companies raise the aesthetic bar of their models and agents. bear with us as we work through requests :)

and, we're hiring (even more now)!

research, design, eng, ml, product, ops, and more! apply below.

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@Nicobot01 Congrats @Nicobot01 !!

[Taste Labs @tastelabs]

tasteful team. join us

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

Excited to finally share what we've been building. Today we're announcing Taste Labs, along with $18M seed round co-led by @Amplify and @CRV .

We're building the data and tooling that give models and agents real judgment and taste. We partner with the top model labs on post-training data and RL environments, and with product teams who need their agents to ship genuinely good results.

Our team is high agency, high intensity, and deeply allergic to ego. We're hiring across the board, so if you care about doing things well and obsess over the details, we'd love to talk to you.

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

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!

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@pitdesi @ezraklein

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@AymericRoucher @huggingface @OpenAI How did Google deep research perform on GAIA?

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

Competition is in town

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Wicked smart Sudanese student at Stanford GSB who wants to dive into early stage tech startups. Red glasses to boot!

[Simba 🇺🇸 @simbajonga2]

@rabois missed his @Barrys class just for an @sv_icons dinner :)

Keith, it was an honor! You’re a legend and one of the best investors, operators and founders out there. 🐐

I won’t waste time writing lessons shared. This notion does a good job.

https://t.co/QApERKeGZb

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@jelleprins how do drone owners sync all drones so seamlessly together ?

[Anand Sanwal @asanwal]

We bootstrapped @cbinsights by first building a totally different business

It involved hedge funds, too big too fail banks and $100,000 PDFs

For nerds interested in data and information services businesses, you might enjoy this

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@hpierrejacques Who’s often the acquirer? Other competitors with stronger capital position?

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

A (Very Long) Screenshot Essay on Meta & The Innovator's Dilemma

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@YatMaxi @mdudas Is he?

https://t.co/X6TXAJ2y93

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

@cryptomanran I honestly think Zuck lives on his on alien moon base and has zero understanding of people, especially people in crypto.

He has no leverage or trust to get us to turn over all our information to him again.

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@VitalikButerin @TheSymmetrical @hosseeb @dragonfly_xyz @VitalikButerin why don’t you join us for the next fireside chat?

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@CryptoUnder25 Can’t look past @voteforpedrito

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@DanPriceSeattle https://t.co/BOfYHRVfEO

[Bloomberg @business]

Bilt Rewards, which offers a loyalty program and credit card that converts rent into reward points, raised $60 million from investors including Mastercard and Wells Fargo https://t.co/2U2BEeWbDE

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@voteforpedrito @santhoshnarayan IBuy —> IRent b-model

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@SoloCeesay @SDinwiddie_25 @scottmelker @CoinDesk @CalaxyApp @hedera 🤯🤯

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@0xbaba Kudos to MetaMask too

[Mo Babeker @MoBabeker]

@dustinjduane @solscanofficial Congrats Dustin!