model labs
also referred to as: model lab
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 1, 2025 by Shawn Wang · across every show →
Everything said about model labs, oldest first
Feb 1, 2025 neutral
Swix: AI engineering exists because labs crowdsource emergent capability discovery
“The reason that AI engineering can exist outside of the model labs is because the model labs release Models with capabilities that they don't even fully know because you never train specifically for it. It's emergent. And you can rely on basically crowdsourcin…”
Nov 1, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2026 bullish
Swyx: Agent labs will capture higher margins than model labs
“I think what I've been calling agent labs, which are people who build on top of all the other models. We'll probably have a better time with the margins because they price against the end user hours spent or like human labor. Whereas models get commodity price…”
Mar 20, 2026
Swix defines Agent Labs as routing and evaluating models without training
“One observation I have, this kind of massive thesis I've been pursuing, which is what I've been calling an agent lab. Where you're sort of different than a model lab in the sense that you never train your own models, but you are the router evaluation layer, su…”