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Thais Castello Branco

@thaiscbranco_
ceo @tastelabs | on a mission to end AI slop | prev founding team @ExaAILabs
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    Thais Castello Branco
    @thaiscbranco_
    Jun 16
    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
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    Thais Castello Branco
    @thaiscbranco_
    Aug 7
    couldn’t agree more. if you want to research data & more on how to make unverifiable domains verifiable, we’re hiring: - research engineers - design engineer researchers
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    Kyle Wong
    @ewveggies
    Aug 7
    Frontier data is a research problem. For example, some of the biggest academic CUA papers are solely focused on data synthesis for SFT (OpenCUA, from last August) and RL (CUA-Gym, from this June). Good data requires diligent researchers and engineers. By next year, I'd expect
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    Thais Castello Branco
    @thaiscbranco_
    Aug 7
    so bullish on @gabriel1 and this team!
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    gabriel
    Energy
    @gabriel1
    Aug 6
    3 months ago i resigned from @OpenAI. today we are launching Energy everyone will soon use AI for all work on their computers, but very few do today even though AI is good enough our users do days of work in hours. we'll onboard the world to working with ai
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    Thais Castello Branco
    @thaiscbranco_
    Aug 3
    this + in objective domains the “mean” is optimal, meaning the most likely answer is the correct one in areas like writing or design, the average is not the outcome you want. creativity and “greatness” lives on the edges of the distribution
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    Paul Graham
    @paulg
    Aug 3
    I was curious why LLMs have gotten so good at math and still aren't that good at writing, so I asked an expert. It's not because math is easier. It's because it has clear right and wrong answers and so is easier to train on. But they are coming for me next.
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    Thais Castello Branco
    @thaiscbranco_
    Aug 3
    @tastelabs in today’s @nytimes 🗞️ in a world of infinite output, judgment and taste are more valuable than ever. thank you @eringriffith for the chat!
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