Taste Labs

AI makes creation cheap, but judgment rare. The article argues that taste, not generation, is the real frontier, and the cure for AI “slop".

The company is decoding subjective domains, starting with design.

Subjective judgement is AI's next frontier. Here's why Amplify believes Taste is the company to solve this.

A chat with Thais, founder of Taste, and CRV, who co-led Taste's $18.5M seed round.

The company invites people with experience in post-training, architecture, search, product building, evals, data, and design to work on subjective domains.

The company is giving AI models and agents taste.

Amplify Partners co-led Taste Labs’ $18.5 million seed round. Taste Labs is building infrastructure to encode subjective human judgment and taste into AI models.

Jun 2026 · Amplify PartnersNews article

Taste Labs introduces an AI taste infrastructure layer alongside an $18.5 million seed round. Thais Castello Branco announces the financing, which is co-led by Amplify Partners and CRV, and describes the infrastructure as a data layer intended to give AI models taste.

Jun 2026 · LinkedInNews article

Taste Labs emerges from stealth with an $18.5 million seed round co-led by CRV and Amplify Partners. The company is building a data and infrastructure layer to give AI models taste.

Jun 2026 · DealroomNews article

Taste Labs raises $18.5M to build an AI infrastructure layer that encodes subjective human judgment and taste. The company develops post-training RL environments for design applications, aiming to give models taste and judgment and end AI slop.

Jun 2026 · DiggNews article