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Taste is a company building the taste layer for AI. Taste aims to teach AI models what great feels like across subjective domains. Taste believes the next frontier of intelligence is taste, not accuracy, and leads research with creative experts and AI labs to develop the methods, data, and evaluations that teach models to understand quality, style, and emotion. Taste focuses on subjective domains and seeks to reduce AI slop in favor of taste.
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Collaborates with creative experts and AI labs as part of its research approach.
Emphasizes subjective quality, style, and emotion in its work.
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