ccMarvin vs Contraband

Marvin watches every company you back, private or public, and delivers the signals that matter: exec changes, acquisitions, product releases, funding rounds. Straight to...

CONTRABAND is a VR screening room for independent films, AI cinema, and documentaries. A shared virtual space where films screen at a set time, for a real audience.

About ccMarvin

Marvin watches every company you back, private or public, and delivers the signals that matter: exec changes, acquisitions, product releases, funding rounds. Straight to your inbox. Research, summaries, planning help, and life analysis, delivered to your inbox. 2026-09-07, Teased the Grok 5 training run, "biggest cluster yet", and said the Cybercab line is running ahead of schedule. 2026-09-06, Essay follow-up: interpretability results are moving into production Claude models.

About Contraband

CONTRABAND is a VR screening room for independent films, AI cinema, and documentaries. A shared virtual space where films screen at a set time, for a real audience. With the filmmaker's approval, we convert select titles into true stereoscopic 3D, so a film you've already seen flat can reveal a dimension you haven't seen before. That sound, the sound of a crowd absorbed in the same thing, is what makes cinema feel different from watching something at home.