ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

A survey of websites for companies named with a number followed by 'Labs' found at least 80 such domains, many of which are AI-related, according to a blog post that cataloged links for numbers 0 through 99. The post, which highlights ElevenLabs (speech synthesis), TwelveLabs (AI for video), and ThirteenLabs (AI for 3D scenery), notes the prevalence of the naming scheme and questions why it is so popular. The author also discovered that seventyonelab.com, a design portfolio, recommends viewing in Netscape 4/0+ or IE 5.0+.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs, … You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company called Twelve Labs 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? 00 https://www.zerolabs.com/ 01 https://onelabs.com/ 02 https://www.twolabs.ai/ 03 https://www.threelabs.co.in/ 04 https://fourlabs.co/ 05 https://fivelabs.co/ 06 https://www.sixlabs.ai/ 07 https://www.sevenlabs.org/ 08 https://eightlabs.ai/ 09 https://www.ninelabs.com/ 10 https://www.tenlabs.in/ 11 https://elevenlabs.io/ 12 https://www.twelvelabs.io/ 13 https://www.13labs.au/ 14 https://14labs.co/ 15 https://www.fifteenlabs.com/ 16 https://xiyudeng.design/Sixteen-Labs 17 https://seventeenlabs.io/ 18 https://www.eighteenlabs.ai/ 19 https://nineteenlabs.io/ 20 https://twentylabs.ai/ 21 https://twentyonelabs.co/ 22 https://twentytwolabs.ai/ 23 https://twentythreelabs.io/ 24 https://24labs.ai/ 25 26 https://www.26-labs.com/ 27 https://www.twentysevenlabs.com/ 28 https://www.twentyeightlab.com/ 29 https://www.29labs.co/ 30 https://thirty-labs.com/ 31 https://www.thirtyonelabs.com/ 32 33 https://www.33labs.ai/ 34 https://www.3fourlabs.com/ 35 36 https://36labs.ai/ 37 https://37labsinc.com/ 38 https://38labs.com/ 39 40 41 https://41labs.ai/ 42 https://www.fortytwolabs.com/ 43 44 https://forty4labs.com/ 45 https://fortyfive.ai/ 46 https://www.46labs.com/ 47 48 https://www.48labs.tr/ 49 https://www.fourninelabs.com/ 50 51 https://www.fiftyonelabs.io/ 525354 55 https://www.labfiftyfive.com/ 56575859 606162 63 https://linktr.ee/sixtythreelabs 64 https://www.sixtyfourlabs.net/ 65 66 https://creativemarket.com/Sixtysixlabs.std 67 https://www.67lab.ai/ 68 https://68labs.com/ 69 https://69labs.vip/ 70 https://app.seventylabs.ch/ 71 https://www.seventyonelab.com/ 72 https://72ailabs.com/ 73 https://73labs.io/ 74 https://www.74labs.com/ 75 https://dutchie.com/stores/good-vibes-cannabis-co/brands/75-labs 76 77 https://www.77labs.com/ 78 https://78lab.co/ 79 80 81 https://www.81labs.co.uk/ 82 https://www.82labs.io/ 83 https://eightythreelabs.com/ 84 85 https://www.eighty5labs.com/ 8687 88 https://88labs.cc/ 89 9091 92 https://www.92labs.ai/ 93 https://93labs.co.uk/ 94 95 https://95labs.com/ 96 https://96labs.com/ 97 https://90sevenlabs.com/ 98 https://98labs.com/ 99 https://www.ninetyninelabs.in/ 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 criteria 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 startup websites, there is seventyonelab.com https://www.seventyonelab.com/ . Alongside the usual "all rights reserved" text, it politely informs you it is best viewed in Netscape 4/0+ or IE 5.0+ Amazing. It looks like a design/webdev portfolio from the early 2000s and is full of fun little sites. I particularly like the aesthetic of the landing page and the other versions of it in the "little project" section. They sort of remind me of what I recently heard referred to as the "vectorheart" https://cari.institute/aesthetics/vectorheart aesthetic like what you'd see on 2000s IDM album covers .