Thais Castello Branco
@thaiscbranco_
ceo @tastelabs | on a mission to end AI slop | prev founding team @ExaAILabs
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Incredibly important work!
We are approaching cyber-superintelligence.
But our systems aren't ready. We must secure our model weights and infrastructure against three new threats: sabotage, escape, and theft.
There is a way forward.
Secure Acceleration:
A Cyberdefense Strategy for Superintelligence
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so cool!
Working on AI VidGen with @droid and @tastelabs
Tastelabs builds the design files and brand guide - not much shown here, but there are signs
Droid orchestrates from a prompt, skills, and MCP
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opus 5.5 vs. fable 5.1
same prompt, all in javascript, navigating through y2k, age of empires, bauhaus, and more styles
opus showed better 3D, physics, smoother transitions, interpretation of style, and added sound effects.
congrats, epic model @claudeai!
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Introducing Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in our new Claude 5.5 family.
It performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 for most tasks, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5.
this is why i always have been and always will be bullish on @ExaAILabs
I think 99% of all web traffic will be AI by next year, right?
Does Google Analytics have any plan for this?
the possibilities are endless
We’ve been experimenting with responsive generative video interfaces. Real-time video models are reshaping responsive design. A thread 🧵
join us if you want to end AI slop!
Pulled the fastest growing startups by hiring velocity over the past 90 days:
Slop is flooding around us.
The solution isn’t stopping creation. Creation is inevitable, especially as the cost of production goes to zero.
What’s missing are the right tools and ways to measure “greatness” vs. slop
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so cool
We built a time machine for the web.
Introducing Exa Snapshot: an index of 400 billion historical snapshots of webpages that lets you search as if it's the past.
Snapshot is already being used for backtesting prediction models, RL at labs, exploring the pre-AI web, and more.
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congrats quiver team! this is awesome
Introducing Arrow 2
Our latest and most advanced models for generating precise, editable vector graphics.
Higher quality. Faster outputs. Available now in App and API.
How do we end AI slop? To fix it, you gotta measure it first.
Thanks for having me @swyx @aiDotEngineer!
getting questions about use cases if you're a vibecoding/coding/gen AI platform:
1. you have enterprise users who want everything they generate to be on brand -> extract endpoint
2. you want to help eliminate AI slop patterns and inspire your agent to produce more unique things -> search endpoint
3. you have users that don't have an existing brand, but know a vibe they want -> search endpoint
4. you want to eval your agent to see if it's sticking to the brand -> verify endpoint
5. you want your agent to self improve it's own output and fix brand drift problems -> verify endpoint
6. you want to personalize things for different customers of yours according to their brand -> extract endpoint
we added some skills and examples in docs here:
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We've been working with the top frontier labs to improve their design model capabilities. Today we're bringing that to your agents.
Introducing our first agent tool: the Brand API.
As the cost of creation goes to zero, and slop floods around us, the challenge is creating things worth existing. Agents need the right tools to craft great things.
This helps gen AI agents solve 3 problems:
- Extract: produce on-brand assets when users already have a brand
- Search: find and retrieve brands for inspiration, from our curated index
- Verify: check their own work against, see what's off brand and how to fix it
Anyone can try it for free today at
Check out the full blog, and case study with @intelligenceco below.
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The value proposition here is crystal clear. Excited for what Thais and team have cooking!!
btw in case you're wondering
no slop writing here either @pangram
You can read our full blog "Helping agents create things worth making" here:
united in the mission to end slop with Taste Labs!
featuring our new office before all the furniture
We're helping agents create things worth making.
Introducing: The Brand API. Your agent can extract any brand system, search for style inspiration, and verify if it’s staying on course.
Try it for free at:
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It's important to have a lot of taste these days. It's important our agents have it too. Thank you @thaiscbranco_ for the feature :)
You can read our full blog "Helping agents create things worth making" here:
We've been working with the top frontier labs to improve their design model capabilities. Today we're bringing that to your agents.
Introducing our first agent tool: the Brand API.
As the cost of creation goes to zero, and slop floods around us, the challenge is creating things worth existing. Agents need the right tools to craft great things.
This helps gen AI agents solve 3 problems:
- Extract: produce on-brand assets when users already have a brand
- Search: find and retrieve brands for inspiration, from our curated index
- Verify: check their own work against, see what's off brand and how to fix it
Anyone can try it for free today at
Check out the full blog, and case study with @intelligenceco below.
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life update: great taste in a husband 🤍
last day to apply to cohort 1!
introducing the @tastelabs research fellowship!
for those excited to work on evaluating model creativity, distilling human preference, and ending slop.
you'll get compute, custom data, time with top designers and researchers, and a competitive stipend. in person in SF or remote, full time or part time.
check out some of the research questions you could explore and apply here:
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