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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs, …

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You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company called TwelveLabs that does AI for video (it feels like it must have been intended to play on the fact that ElevenLabs does audio, but I don't know for sure). Jokingly, I googled "thirteenlabs" and was surprised to find an AI for 3D scenery project. I googled "fourteenlabs". Another AI startup…?? How far does this go? Numbers 0-99 annotated with links to companies using it + "labs" as their name. A link has a background if the company is AI-related. This really just raised more questions than answers. Why is this such a popular naming scheme? Are people independently arriving at this naming scheme? Why call your AI startup "68labs"? Why are the seventies so much more dense than the rest of the higher numbers? Also, I'm tempted to speculatively buy up domains like "twentyfivelabs" or "thirtytwolabs"… One fun discovery: among all the incredibly same-y start

You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company called TwelveLabs that does AI for video (it feels like it must have been intended to play on the fact that ElevenLabs does audio, but I don't know for sure). Jokingly, I googled "thirteenlabs" and was surprised to find an AI for 3D scenery project. I googled "fourteenlabs". Another AI startup…?? How far does this go? Numbers 0-99 annotated with links to companies using it + "labs" as their name. A link has a background if the company is AI-related. My loose…

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