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Tamez Labs
by Grep News | Trip Wire
Tamez Labs is a podcast about the AI economy. Companies and tools. Who's raising. What's shipping. What's worth your time.AI startup episodes profile one company that just raised $100M or more. The product, the founders, the market, and hidden details. We uncover what made the round make sense to the people who wrote the checks.Head-to-head episodes put the latest AI tools to a challenge to see which one wins. Claude vs Cursor. ChatGPT vs Gemini. Veo vs Sora. Hosted by Trip and Jack. New episodes weekly. Tamez Labs is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice.Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/tamez-labs
Episodes
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Anthropic's $30B Round and Its Embedded Safety Evaluators
Anthropic has invited Accenture's AI division to observe Claude's training in real time — the first arrangement of its kind at a frontier AI lab. The move raises a genuine question about whether embedded oversight is a meaningful safety commitment or a cleverly structured appearance of one. This...
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Claude Docs and Slides Tested for Client Deliverables
Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Slides on September 16th, letting users build documents and decks directly inside a conversation. Trip and Jack put the new tools through a concrete test — a client-ready deliverable — and trace exactly where the drafting engine holds up and where it falls short.
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Suno V6 Section Editing Tested Against the Perfection Wall
Suno's V6 update ships section editing, single-lyric swaps, and mashups in one request — a genuine move toward directing a song rather than re-rolling it. Trip and Jack weigh those craft gains against a hard perfection wall, a second abrupt model retirement in five weeks, and a licensing story...
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Runway Solaris vs. Coded UI: Direct Manipulation Test
Runway's Solaris generates app interfaces as live video frames rather than HTML and JavaScript — your clicks steer the model, not the DOM. Trip Wire and Jack Lock dig into what that actually means: where the approach earns its wins, and where structural limits like text legibility, zero...
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Perplexity AI's $30B Valuation and the Nvidia Talks
Perplexity AI tripled its annualized revenue to over $750 million in roughly half a year — and most of that surge traces to a single new product that isn't quite search. This episode tracks how a citation-first answer engine is pushing into AI agents, and what a reported Nvidia investment signals...
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Velaura AI's $110M Bet on Power-Efficient Silicon
Velaura AI raised a $110 million Series A on the strength of thirty million chips already in the field — not a pitch deck. The Santa Clara startup licenses a chip IP block called Titan Core that promises two to four times more AI performance per watt, and collects royalties tied to the power...
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Canva AI 2.0 vs Adobe Firefly for Client Campaigns
Trip Wire and Jack Lock pit Canva AI 2.0 against Adobe Firefly on a concrete brief: build a brand-consistent, client-ready campaign asset set — social graphic, slide, and supporting image — that's editable at the component level and commercially safe to ship. The verdict splits cleanly, and the...
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Krea 2 LoRA Style Training Tested on Five Images
Trip Wire and Jack Lock put Krea 2's new LoRA training to the test — not the model launch itself, but the narrower question of whether you can take a real, ownable illustration style and make it reliably reusable across new subjects and scenes. They work through the Doodles/Burnt Toast case,...
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GPT-Transcribe Batch vs. Live for Podcast Tape
OpenAI released two transcription models — GPT-Transcribe and GPT-Live-Transcribe — just two days before this recording, so real performance data is still thin. Trip Wire and Jack Lock work through what's actually documented: the truncation bug that silently drops audio, phantom name…
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Claude Code Desktop iOS Simulator Pane vs. Shippable UI
Anthropic's Claude Code desktop app just added an iOS Simulator Pane that lets the coding agent build, launch, and tap through an app it wrote — closing the does-it-run gap for mobile UI. Trip Wire and Jack Lock break down what that verification loop actually delivers, where it falls short, and...
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Walden Robotics and Its $300M Bet on Factory AI
Walden Robotics spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January and had humanoid robots running eight-hour production shifts by February — a timeline almost unheard of in the field. In July, the Cambridge startup announced a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation, backed by Toyota,...
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Northslope Acquired by OpenAI's DeployCo After $22M Series A
Northslope was an 88-person applied AI company built by ex-Palantir engineers to deploy custom applications inside large enterprises. About five months after closing a $22 million Series A, OpenAI's deployment subsidiary came calling. The story behind that acquisition reveals a quiet but...
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GPT-5.6 Sol Tested: Coding Engine or Creative Tool
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and its Sol Ultra sibling just launched as the company's flagship reasoning-and-code models — but nearly every performance number comes straight from OpenAI's own preview data. Trip Wire and Jack Lock break down what the agentic architecture actually does, where independent...
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Etched Raises $500M to Build a Dedicated Inference Chip
Etched is a chip startup that raised $800 million on a simple but radical premise: you can't fix AI inference by swapping one part. This episode traces how three Harvard dropouts went from a 30-page memo that every investor passed on to a five-billion-dollar company with over a billion dollars in...
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OpenAI DeployCo's $4 Billion AI Deployment Bet
OpenAI's new venture, the OpenAI Deployment Company, is placing engineers directly inside client businesses to wire AI into real workflows — and it launched with four billion dollars and a guest list that includes McKinsey. This episode looks at what DeployCo is, how it acquired London-based…
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v0 plus Figma plus Cursor: interactive prototype shipped in one afternoon
v0 built a contacts table with search and a modal in three minutes flat, then took fifty more to wire up anything that actually makes it a product. That ratio is the whole game: AI scaffolding is instant, but brand decisions, interaction bugs, and demo-path triage do not compress at the same…
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ElevenLabs v3 vs Cartesia: where narrator grade breaks in long form
ElevenLabs v3 vs Cartesia Sonic 3.5 is the AI voice showdown every podcast producer needs to know about right now, and the timing could not be more lopsided: one model has three months of real creative testing behind it, the other launched two days ago. For a ten-minute two-voice episode, v3 wins...
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Fundamental: $255M For AI That Actually Understands Numbers
A startup called Fundamental Technologies spent sixteen months in total silence, raised two hundred and twenty-five million dollars, hit a one-point-four billion dollar valuation, and signed Fortune 100 customers at seven-figure contracts before most people even knew it existed. Their argument is...
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ComfyUI wins the character consistency test: Krea can't hold a face
Krea just shipped native LoRA training inside the browser on June 1, and suddenly the tool everyone wrote off as a vibe-check platform can actually lock a character's face across a full pose series without touching a single command line. ComfyUI still wins if you need a portable, reproducible...
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How Goodfire Found Alzheimer's Clues Inside AI Weights
A company just cracked open an AI model trained on biological data and found a new class of potential Alzheimer's biomarkers hiding inside the weights — something no researcher had written down or gone looking for. Goodfire built the tool that made that possible: a platform that reverse-engineers...
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Suno v4 vs Udio v2: which clears for broadcast
Udio makes genuinely better-sounding AI music than Suno in 2026, especially on vocals, but it does not let you download the files you create, which means it literally cannot complete a sync licensing job. Suno v5.5 gives paid users exportable WAV and MP3 files, cleared commercial rights, and new...
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humans&: The $480M Bet Against Solo AI
A startup called humans& just raised 480 million dollars at a 4.48 billion dollar valuation with 20 employees, no product, and three months of existence — and the money is not a fluke. The founders are ex-xAI, ex-Anthropic, and Stanford AI royalty, and they left those labs specifically because…
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ASML Just Bet €1.7B on Mistral AI's European Answer
The company that holds a total global monopoly on the machines that make AI chips just took an 11% stake in a two-year-old French startup — and that startup was founded by two of the people who literally invented open-weight AI models at Meta. Mistral AI is quietly building the thing nobody…
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We shipped a 60 second apparel spot using Google Omni as the heavy lift
Google just dropped Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 and motion designers are already stress-testing it on real client work — specifically, building a full 60-second branded spot for an indie apparel brand using nothing but Omni and After Effects. The catch is brutal and very real: Omni hard-caps every…
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Anduril Industries: $20B Army Contract At 24 Years Old
A 24-year-old who once considered making food from sewage-derived petroleum just landed a 20-billion-dollar Army contract — and buried inside it is something wilder than the number itself: 120 separate Pentagon procurement processes collapsed into one ordering mechanism any federal buyer can use....
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Cursor vs Claude Code: where the code breaks first
Claude Code went so viral over the 2025 holidays that people who had never written a line of code were using it to ship real apps, which is wild until you realize the terminal has a hard ceiling on visual work. Cursor vs Claude Code for a junior dev building a portfolio site in two hours is not...
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Why Physical Intelligence Open-Sourced a $1.1B Model
Two robotic arms ran a commercial espresso machine for 13 hours straight at Physical Intelligence's SF headquarters — grinding, pulling shots, frothing, cleaning, repeating — with zero human intervention and zero reprogramming between cycles. This isn't a party trick: it's proof that their...
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Veo 3 vs Sora 2: which one ships the commercial
Google and OpenAI are literally fighting right now over which AI can shoot a 30-second Nike-style running shoe commercial, and neither one can do it without a human fixing the seams. Sora 2 dropped April 26 with physics modeling that actually understands how a foot hits pavement, while Veo 3.1...
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How Skild Brain Controls Any Robot, Zero Retraining
One robot dog walked another robot dog on a leash. Same brain, zero retraining, two completely different bodies — and that demo is the clearest proof yet that Skild AI is not building a robot, it is building the operating system for all of them. Fifty employees, thirty million in revenue…
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Cerebras Systems Wafer Scale AI Chips Run Entire Models Fifteen Times Faster
Cerebras just built a single computer chip the size of a dinner plate with nearly a trillion transistors, and it runs AI inference up to 15 times faster than Nvidia's best GPUs by eliminating the bottleneck everyone else just accepted. OpenAI liked it so much they signed a 20-billion-dollar...
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Fal Fast Generative Media API For Sub Second Image And Video
fal just raised 140 million dollars to become the invisible backbone of AI-generated images and videos, processing billions of assets every month for Adobe, Canva, and Shopify. They built an inference engine that makes AI image generation ten times faster than normal, so you get results in under…
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Together AI Powering Open Source Models 2 To 3X Faster And Cheaper
Together AI just dropped a dataset with 258,000 verified coding agent trajectories showing exactly how AI solves real programming problems, and they're running open-source models 2 to 3 times faster than AWS or Google Cloud. The company hit 100 million in revenue and raised 305 million dollars by...
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Jack Dorsey Fires 4000 Saying AI Replaces Humans
Jack Dorsey just fired 4,000 people at Block—40 percent of the company—despite posting 24 percent profit growth and calling results "strong," and Wall Street made the stock jump 20 percent in a single day because he straight-up said AI tools can replace them. He didn't hide behind corporate speak...
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Thinking Machines Lab Lets You Customize Deterministic AI With Four Lines
A startup just raised two billion dollars at seed to let you customize cutting-edge AI models with four lines of Python on your laptop. Thinking Machines Lab's new platform Tinker handles all the nightmare distributed training infrastructure while you write straightforward code, using a technique...
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Reka AI Tiny Efficient Multimodal Models That Cut Crime
An Ohio police department taught their security cameras to think using AI from a startup you've never heard of, and crime dropped 42 percent while cases got solved 65 percent faster. Reka AI just hit a billion-dollar valuation by doing the opposite of everyone else: building tiny, efficient…
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Anthropic Trustworthy Interpretable AI That Automates Critical Enterprise Work
An AI just beat every human ever on a major software engineering exam in the same two hours, and it's built by a company that cares more about whether you can trust it than how fast it can go. Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 just raised thirteen billion dollars while doing something wild: publishing...
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Reflection AI Free Open Source Frontier Models With Released Weights
A Brooklyn startup with 60 people just raised 2 billion dollars to build AI models as powerful as GPT-4, then release the actual model weights for free—not just API access, but the stuff OpenAI guards like nuclear codes. Reflection AI is led by the core team behind AlphaGo and Google Gemini…
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Unconventional AI Brain Inspired Analog Chips For 1000X Energy Efficiency
Your brain runs on 20 watts, the same as a dim lightbulb, while the AI systems powering ChatGPT and image generators burn through 50 times more energy doing far less. A company called Unconventional AI just raised 475 million dollars to build chips that run neural networks on physics itself using...
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Betty Boop Nancy Drew Hit Public Domain And Studios Panic
Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, The Maltese Falcon, and a bunch of 1930 classics are officially entering public domain on January 1st, which means you can finally make whatever you want with them without getting sued. Except Fleischer Studios is already threatening legal action, claiming the original...
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Aardman Embraces AI But Keeps The Clay Soul
Nick Park, the genius behind Wallace and Gromit, is flirting with AI to speed up animation but swears he won’t sacrifice that iconic clay-crafted charm. As stop-motion faces its biggest tech shakeup since CGI, Park’s all about mixing old-school heart with new-school tools without losing what…
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Your Music Reveals Youre A Sixty Year Old
Spotify just launched a wild new feature that guesses your “musical age” based on the era of your top songs—and the internet is losing it over being called a great-aunt or a teen. Whether you’re rocking classic rock or binging the latest hits, this algorithm doesn’t get your vibe, just your...
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OpenAI & Jony Ive to Release AI Hardware in Two Years
OpenAI and Jony Ive are secretly building a wild new AI gadget that’s not a phone or laptop but something so sleek and simple you might actually want to hang out with it. With prototypes already in the works and no screens involved, they’re aiming to create an AI that knows what you need before…
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Ford Bronco Takes Street View Off Road
Ford strapped a Google Street View camera to a Bronco and mapped the brutal TransAmerica Trail across 13 states—finally bringing off-road routes to Google Maps. This isn’t just a slick marketing stunt; it’s a game-changer for adventurers tired of relying on outdated maps or expensive gear. Plus,...
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Gen Z Floods AI Art With Wild Experiments
Gen Z creatives are diving headfirst into AI, with over half using it daily—but only 37% actually feel ready for the AI future. Meanwhile, half the industry’s secretly using AI on client projects to dodge fee cuts, and designers are seriously freaked out, worried AI is killing real creativity.…
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Antones Blues Mecca Scores 50 Year Lease
Antone’s in Austin just locked down a mind-blowing 50-year lease, securing its spot as a blues legend for decades to come. With $1.3 million from the Austin Cultural Trust, they’re turning the venue into a live music powerhouse and building a blues museum that’ll keep the vibe alive well past…
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Apple Ditches AI For Spectacular Human Crafted Intro
Apple just ditched the "+" from Apple TV Plus and went full artisanal, hand-sculpting their new logo out of glass with studio lights and physics-level precision. They even roped in FINNEAS to compose a custom audio mnemonic—basically throwing an insane budget at proving human-made beats...
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GTA VI Launch Delayed Yet Again Until 2026
GTA Six just got delayed again—now landing in November 2026—and Rockstar’s turning perfectionism into a decade-long waiting game. Meanwhile, Nintendo slapped streamer Jesse Keighin with a $17K lawsuit after he leaked unreleased Mario games, proving not even internet bravado can dodge corporate...
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AI Is Making Us All Product Builders
Figma’s CEO just declared job titles are going extinct as AI turns 56% of non-designers into accidental creatives, pushing everyone to be multi-tool pros. Meanwhile, Canva’s slamming Adobe with a free, pro-level design app that lets you opt out of AI overload, shaking up the whole creative world....
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This App Turns Everything Into A Conspiracy
Welcome to the era where your phone isn’t just smart—it’s turning everyday doubt into full-blown, algorithm-fueled paranoia. Social media’s obsession with clicks has turned conspiracy theories from quirky side chats into massive, reality-bending superplots that drown out real news and make…
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Secret Russian Sex Spies Target Silicon Valley Nerds
Russian spies are upgrading honey traps by sliding into Silicon Valley’s LinkedIn DMs, targeting cloud architects with flirty manipulation to steal secrets. Meanwhile, brace yourself—coffee prices just shot up 41% thanks to Brazil’s drought and tariffs, making your daily caffeine fix way pricier....
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Tamez Labs is a podcast about the AI economy. Companies and tools. Who's raising. What's shipping. What's worth your time.AI startup episodes profile one company that just raised $100M or more. The product, the founders, the market, and hidden details. We uncover what made the round make sense to the people who wrote the checks.Head-to-head episodes put the latest AI tools to a challenge to see which one wins. Claude vs Cursor. ChatGPT vs Gemini. Veo vs Sora. Hosted by Trip and Jack. New episodes weekly. Tamez Labs is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice.Subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. https://grep.news/podcast/tamez-labs
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