YC's application deadline has passed, but we're still accepting applications! The world needs more women-led companies, so if you are a woman founder or know of one, please apply asap to @ycombinator & feel free to DM me if you do
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Deepsilicon runs neural nets with 5x less RAM and ~20x faster. They are building SW and custom silicon for it.
What’s interesting is that they have proved it with SW, and you can even try it.
On why we funded them 1/7
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Congrats to Salient on their $60 M Series A led by a16z! building AI agents for consumer loan servicing
they’re one of the fastest YC startups to get to 8-fig in rev I worked with, closing some of the largest U.S. banks just a few months after the batch
here’s how OSS foundation models powered their growth, and how sending 500 cold emails a day landed their first customers
Congrats @arimalik95 @woodenstick !!
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for the current generation of startups selling to enterprises, this forward-deployed engineering playbook is what gets them to 10x in revenue within a year
seen it play out for many YC startups like @happyrobot, @reductoai, @SolaAI_ , @gethockeystack , salient, and many more
Bob McGrew (@bobmcgrewai) helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades.
He was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir—where he helped pioneer the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model— and was recently Chief Research Officer at OpenAI - where he led the development of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and o1.
On this episode of @LightconePod, he explains how FDEs became central to today's startups, why "doing things that don't scale at scale" works, and where he sees the biggest opportunities for founders working in AI.
00:29 – From PayPal to Palantir to OpenAI
02:19 – The Role of a Forward Deployed Engineer
03:19 – How Palantir Invented It
07:56 – Product Discovery in the Field vs. Sales
09:51 – Echo and Delta Teams Explained
13:34 – Training Ground for Founders
14:35 – Consulting or Real Software?
17:54 – The Birth of Palantir’s Ontology
23:04 – Why AI Companies Adopt It
36:17 – What Success Metrics Look Like
41:14 – Building with Demo-Driven Development
44:56 – Joining the US Army Reserve
47:43 – Opportunities for Founders
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On this episode we decoded the research and engineering behind DeepSeek
A takeaway for startups: it's a great time to build! as the cost of intelligence keeps going down
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saw some impressive projects built in <8 hrs at the ai coding hackathon today hosted by @samedotdev @morphllm @benswerd from game engines to JIT agents
here are the finalists
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congrats to @reductoai 's $24.5M Series A.
this is a story on how @aditabrm and @raunakdoesdev found their startup idea and how launching during YC got them to land a large fortune 25 contract 1/7
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congrats to the first Spring batch Demo Day!!
excited to see what they’ll go on to build
<0.8 % acceptance rate and >70% companies had applied with just an idea
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Congrats to every company in S24! We jut wrapped Demo Day. It was an awesome batch to get to work together. Excited to see what's next.
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Congratulations to @infisical! on closing a $16 M Series A led by @eladgil.
building an open-source secrets management.
companies like Hugging Face and LG already rely on them. Here’s the story of how they started and almost missed their YC interview.
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yess come join this hackathon on AI coding agents this saturday at YC lu.ma/hzwlapu0
if you win, you'll get a guaranteed YC interview
Ok, now for the cool stuff
Winner of AI Coding Agents hackathon this weekend gets a YC interview with @sdianahu
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Excited to host a real-time voice AI hackathon at YC's office on 10/11 with @pipecat_ai @GoogleDeepMind @boundaryML @covaldev @langfuse @tavus
Sign up here: events.ycombinator.com/pipec…
We'll offer guaranteed YC interviews to the winners
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A summary of my talk earlier today on "how to build and succeed as a technical founder" for @ycombinator @startupschool
(meme edition) 🧵
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Congrats to @withdavidai $25 M Series A!
a story on how, during the YC batch, Tomer & Ben got from a niche problem in robotics to solving a big problem and becoming the first audio research data lab, building the “Common Crawl for audio"
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it’s been faster to sell AI apps in this tech cycle as opposed to cloud apps in the last one
We're in the middle of the AI revolution, and it's transforming business at every level.
Aaron Levie (@levie), the co-founder & CEO of Box, joins the @LightconePod to talk about how AI can drive abundance, unlock new possibilities, and change the way companies compete & operate.
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we are hosting the first ever AI startup school with speakers like Elon, Satya, Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Fei Fei Li.
we'll pick the best future builders to learn from the best
I'm proud to announce YC's first AI Startup School— June 16 and 17th in San Francisco. It's a totally free conference bringing together the next top CS and AI minds in the world.
Learn from top founders and AI researchers and meet your peers who will build the future. Apply now
events.ycombinator.com/ai-su…
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Congratulations to Sola!! It was not too long ago when they were in the batch in S23. I was impressed with how quickly they closed enterprise deals during the batch and continued growing!
Excited to announce that @SolaAI_ has raised a $17.5M Series A led by @a16z with support from @Conviction @ycombinator, bringing total funding to $21M 🚀
From the start, we set out to reimagine human-AI interaction to push the boundaries of process automation. Our agents watch how people do tasks on-screen, then handle those tasks automatically, even in legacy tools.
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Deadline is in ~7hrs, it should take ~1 hr to apply. It may change the trajectory of your life like it did for me to achieve the American dream. Let's work together on it
At YC, we work with founders throughout the life of their startup and beyond, to build the world-changing companies of the future.
And we'd love to work with you.
The deadline to apply for YC Summer 2024 is Monday, April 22 at 8pm PDT — apply today at ycombinator.com/apply.
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Congratulations to @happyrobot on raising $44M for their Series B less than a year after their A and 10x their revenue!
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story of how @pablorpalafox , @palafoxjavi, @PaarupLuis started and pivoted right at Demo Day while walking away from an idea that had made $70k in ARR into AI voice agents for logistics
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it was incredible to chat with @drfeifei and i’m excited about what she’s building with spatial intelligence
now it feels more feasible than when we did back at escher reality since LLMs opened a new door
Dr. Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei), the Godmother of AI, on the origin of computer vision and why spatial intelligence is the next frontier.
At AI Startup School in San Francisco.
01:00 - Origins of ImageNet
02:15 - The Dream to Make Machines See
03:28 - A paradigm shift in AI
05:50 - AlexNet and Deep Learning
08:00 - Evolving Computer Vision
12:20 - Building World Labs
13:00 - The next frontier in AI
14:20 - Why Spatial Intelligence Is Harder Than Language
18:40 - Technical Barriers for Vision-Based AI
20:00 - AI is more than LLMs
25:50 - Fei Fei’s Journey
29:30 - Mentoring some of the legends of AI
33:00 - Audience Q&A
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Founder mode is the toughest thing to figure out after startups make something people want
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Jevons paradox at play. Even if AI models get more efficient and keep scaling, there will be just more need for computation as more applications get built and unlocked, so more need for AI datacenters and newer ways to manage and build them up
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We are doing early interviews for AI startups next week
It's one of the most exciting times to start a company with all the rapid AI progress. I've been impressed with how quickly founders get to cool AI ideas that have a great shot at building something enduring
We're hosting a special round of early interviews for AI companies. Apply by this Tuesday, July 18: ycombinator.com/blog/early-i…
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It's one of the best times to build.
Not just because the chessboard of ideas is all new with AI, but also because it is fun!
I'm still amazed at what is possible with every batch. There's definitely more we can do.
Now is the best time in history to be a builder.
We are entering a golden age of building. Let’s use it to build things to make the country better!
🧵Here are some of the ideas we think will be especially cool to build in this golden age: ycombinator.com/rfs-build
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cool to see a batchmate from s17 IPO!
Today, BillionToOne went public, becoming YC's 4th biotech IPO. As a company that quietly provides societally important infrastructure, BillionToOne is less well known than they deserve to be. Here is their story, from grad students to IPO.
BillionToOne is the rare company that is both incredibly good for the world and also an extremely good business. 1 in 11 pregnancies in the US take the BillionToOne genetic test, and through this they prevent an immense amount of human suffering.
But BillionToOne is also the rare biotech that has generated revenue from the early days. It has always had excellent margins, rapid growth, and capital efficiency. Today, it is going public not just as a scientific success, but a commercial one, with over $265M in ARR and 65% gross margins.
We met the BillionToOne founders, Oguzhan and David, when they were still finishing up their PhDs. At the time, BillionToOne was only an idea, but it was a thought provoking one.
When a woman is pregnant, fragments of the fetus' DNA circulate in her blood. What if you could design a genetic test for the fetus using this free circulating DNA? That would allow you to do pre-natal genetic testing with a simple blood draw.
The problem is that this DNA is a mess - it's tiny snippets mixed in with a much larger amount of unrelated fragments. To extract the signal from the noise requires both advanced wet lab sequencing techniques and also advanced machine learning algorithms. Oguzhan and David were the exact right people to crack this because they had both biology and CS backgrounds.
The BillionToOne founders have always moved fast. In just 6 months from YC funding them, while still finishing their PhDs, they went from an idea to a proof of concept. From there, it was just two years to regulatory approval and a commercially available test.
They haven't slowed down. While the pre-natal genetic testing market they started in is over a $2B market and still mostly untapped, they've already expanded to a second market in oncology.
It turns out that their same technology that makes sense of free floating DNA can also be used to detect cancer from a blood test. The potential market size for that is enormous - perhaps $100B. That is where BillionToOne is going, and it's quite possible that if you're reading this, you will someday regularly take their blood test to stay cancer free.
To all the people who say that Silicon Valley just funds GPT wrappers and B2B SaaS, BillionToOne should be a star example of how the SV ecosystem can solve societally important problems. It is a classic story of how a highly technical team, an ambitious idea, and a small amount of funding can catalyze the creation of enormous value.
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Be part of the the first ever YC fall batch
We are running a new YC batch this fall!
Applications are now open: ycombinator.com/blog/yc-fall…
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Congrats to @diodeinc on raising a $11.4 M Series A! They build AI that automates circuit design with customers incl. a F100 company and physical intelligence.
1/9 story on how @lennykhazan and @davideasnaghi applied to YC with just an idea still in their jobs, but that first idea nobody wanted. Though, it was a good start for them to iterate during the S24 batch.
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Congrats to @withdavidai! It was only 5 months ago that they did their Series A. They have indeed grown their revenue that quickly to now close a series B! Good work on delivering the best data for voice AI
David AI has raised a $50M Series B from Meritech and NVIDIA to establish the data layer for audio AI.
Audio is the front-end interface for real-world AI. At David AI, we’re creating the data that powers the models bringing these use cases to life.
withdavid.ai/news/announcing…
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lots and lots of evals is what making AI apps *actually work* in prod
Spent the weekend with 100+ founders (incl. @sama) at @ycombinator's AI retreat. Here are my 5 biggest takeaways for 2025:
1/ o3 isn't the story: Everyone's hyped about OpenAI's o3, but o3-mini is the real game-changer. It brings next-level reasoning capabilities at a fraction of the cost. Releases in a few weeks.
2/ The "better than human" paradox: AI clearly outperforms humans on specific tasks, yet struggles with adoption. Why? Users expect perfection from AI but accept human error as normal.
3/ Fine-tuning's limited role: Most production use cases are moving to custom RAG pipelines. Fine-tuning often leads to alignment issues and higher hallucination rates in real-world deployments.
4/ Voice AI is truly here: One YC startup (@happyrobot) has already automated 100k+ high-value freight calls. While the demos look cool, doing this well requires very hard engineering.
5/ The eval secret: Most are building in the dark. Best kept secret in AI? Every startup is building their own eval suite because what works for fintech fails for consumer support.
Being part of YC continues to be the biggest unfair advantage in tech. Can't recommend applying to Spring 2025 batch enough.
Huge thanks to our incredible partner @sdianahu and @garrytan for the invite. The caliber of founders in the room was unreal. 🚀
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glad you landed on tiny ai frontier models that can run on 25mb ;)
Announcing it a little late, but excited to share that I got into YC S25!
I've always been super passionate about on-device AI and have always wanted to start a company. So we're building @stellon_labs, where we create tiny frontier models that can run on edge devices.
Some interesting highlights from the journey:
- Launched KittenTTS - an open-source text-to-speech model that hit 8k stars in just 2 weeks
- Met and talked with several OG people in the startup world
- Pivoted 3 times!
If you're a founder, I'd highly recommend applying to YC. It will definitely change the way you think about things.
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Thanks GCP! we have one more dedicated GPU cluster for YC AI companies to move faster techcrunch.com/2024/08/01/go…
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Congrats to the @ycombinator S21 batch! It is an honor to support you on your journey.
Tons of impressive founders and companies!
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cool thing about AI it has made navigating the idea maze a lot faster than ever, we did a deep dive on some examples here:
There has never been a better time to start an AI startup, but many founders find themselves stuck when it comes to thinking of a good idea.
In this episode, the @LightconePod hosts look at the different approaches founders can take to find meaningful problems to solve.
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a fun way to spend your summer building if you are studying CS
If you're a computer science or engineering student and want to spend the summer working on your own technical project, apply for a YC Summer Fellows Grant ($20k cash and $90k compute) here:
events.ycombinator.com/summe…
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It’s been cool to see how you kept the execution speed way after YC!
excited for you @zenorocha
Big announcement today.
Resend has raised a $18M Series A.
Here's how we got here and where we are going...
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already happening, SIMD optimizations are being written by R1 in ggml @ggerganov
github.com/ggerganov/llama.c…
Inference AI Infra in the World of Test-Time Compute
@sdianahu
There’s room to rebuild the AI infrastructure stack: better software at inference-layer tooling, cheaper ways to handle GPU workloads, and optimizations that let AI apps scale without bleeding money.
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woot congrats! More impressively they’ve processed over 1B pages and closed more large enterprises!
I’m thrilled to announce @reductoai’s $75M Series B led by @a16z, which brings our total funding to $108M.
Just five months after our Series A, we've surpassed 1 billion pages processed and grown our monthly volume 6x. We now process hundreds of millions of pages every month for some of the world's best AI teams.
Here's what we've learned and where we're headed 🧵
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Cool to see what was built in <36 hrs. o1 is unlocking deeper reasoning workflows like solving Navier-Stokes equations for @camfer_inc to codegen to speed GPU kernels for @proxis_ai , and correct medical diagnosis for ER for @vera_health_ai, and many more
Congrats to the winners of the @OpenAI x YC o1 Hackathon!
@liam_a_collins & @jackson_stokes from @proxis_ai
@_maximall & @TaiebBennani from @vera_health_ai
@AryaBastani & @KeatonElvins from @camfer_inc
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Congrats to all @ycombinator companies that presented for the W22 batch!!
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Congrats @daltonc and @paultoo!!
i’ll miss working together, and at the same time this is great for startups’ series As
After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator.
YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert for creating this extraordinary institution.
Standard Capital is name of the AI-native Series A firm I’m co-founding with two of my favorite people: Paul Buchheit, my longtime colleague at YC, and Bryan Berg, the CTO of my previous startups.
AI is reshaping every aspect of our world. We aim to embed AI in every part of our business and back the AI disruptors of tomorrow.
Follow us at @Standard_Cap, you’ll be hearing more from us soon!
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Building AI Models is faster and cheaper than you probably think
We are highlighting 25 companies that have done it with a lot less resources.
ycombinator.com/blog/buildin…
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We also came to @HarvardU with @snowmaker. We had a surprise speaker with @DevishiJha who just did the batch in S23 to share her experience.
when we asked the room who is already working on a startup, lots of students raised their hand. It was cool to see so much interest!
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thank you so much @mwseibel. It’s been an honor to work together! You’ve been a pillar for the yc community. I learned so much from your unique way of delivering tough feedback while making everyone smile 😊
Excited for your next adventure serving in the government
Today after 12+ years at Y Combinator I’ll be transitioning to a Partner Emeritus position. This role allows me to continue to do office hours with the 1000+ companies I’ve worked with in the past decade while giving me the free time to explore new adventures. It also means that the w25 batch was my last batch funding new YC companies.
The next adventure I’m excited to pursue (after taking the summer to relax) is how I can help government better serve its citizens. Thank you to the countless friends who have been pushing me in this direction for years. Government was the passion of my youth and I’m excited to reengage.
Thank you to @ycombinator @paulg and @jesslivingston for changing my life.
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Congratulations to the S23 batch!! It was an honor working with you all!
AI made it special with lots of strong technical founders who got to interesting ideas faster than ever before
ycombinator.com/blog/meet-th…
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Lots of cool demos! So fun to see them live ranging from AI tools to robots to live coding!
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Excited to give a talk at qcon.ai this year! With our work @NianticEng
@sdianahu will share her great work at @NianticLabs . The company who showed most people the state of the art in augmented reality with the release of Pokemon Go.
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YC changed my life! It could change yours too. I hope we get to work together too! Today is the deadline
The deadline to apply for YC S23 is tomorrow, Friday, April 7 at 8pm PT!
Apply at ycombinator.com/apply.
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Intuitively this works, because neurons in DNN use activation functions that are S curved with 3 states. With only (-1,0,1), the dot product between matrices just becomes arithmetic.
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Was really fun to come to speak at @Penn with JJ a YC and Penn Alumni about starting startups as new college grads. We had a full house! standing room only.
Awesome energy and optimism about the future!
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I've been playing in the Playground, and lots of clever tech implementations to get diffusion models to *actually* generate designs you'd use! (not just art) We'll have a chat about it in Lightcone in a future episode
1/ I am excited to announce the new Playground: Design graphics like a Pro. You can make T-shirts, Logos, Social Media Posts, and even invent new kinds of memes.
Powered by our next image foundation model Playground v3 (beta).
Go to playground.\com. No wait list.
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Congratulations to the W23 batch on presenting at Demo Day and showcasing all the hard work over the last months. Lots of great companies!
It was a joy working with them. I look forward to what's next for them
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So excited to unveil W24 companies at demo day, so fun to work with everyone and see all their impressive progress
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Congratulations to @tavus launching PALs and their $40M series B led by CRV.
it's been a journey for @hassaanraza and @quinnfavret
they have been at it since 2021 before AI took off and changed directions many times
here is the story
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Delighted to be back at @CarnegieMellon!! to talk about YC and startups with @TroyDemmer, cofounder of @geckorobotics, a W16 YC series C co that uses robotics to fix infrastructure.
Full house again, lots of aspiring founders at CMU!
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7/7 You can try it here for the SW version github.com/deepsilicon/Sila
When they get the HW ready, the speedups and energy consumption will be even higher.
More details here too news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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At our YC NeurIPSs meetup, conversations landed different than other academic conferences. The excitement around AI and potential companies is special at this time. AI researchers have an edge to build something great. They are peaking more into the future than anyone else on AI
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Would love to see you!
We’re bringing the Female Founders Conference back in person!
If you are an engineer or scientist and you’re thinking about starting a startup, we hope hearing stories from women founders will inspire you to take the leap yourself.
🟧yc.link/FFC24
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Very excited and proud of the incredible progress for all the companies @ycombinator W22 batch presenting now on day 1
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4/7 They actually got SOTA models to run, overcoming the issues from the MSFT BitNet paper that inspired this. microsoft.com/en-us/research….
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+1 OSS makes it easy to get dev trust and adoption
OSS companies I worked with for S23
github.com/sweepai/sweep
github.com/PeerDB-io/peerdb
github.com/CambioML/pykoi
github.com/axilla-io/ax
github.com/dsensei/dsensei
github.com/refinedev/refine
github.com/apoxy-dev/proxima…
github.com/Trainy-ai/llm-atc
github.com/epsilla-cloud/vec…
github.com/quack-ai/companio…
Some of these OSS companies will become giants. Open source has become such a powerful go to market.
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2/7 They found that representing transformer models as ternary values (-1, 0, 1) eliminates the need for computationally expensive floating-point math.
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the IRL energy is special. There's something about the serendipitous hallway conversations between founders who help each other succeed
The biggest change in the YC W24 batch is that we ran it from our new campus. The new YC campus in the heart of SF is the perfect home for us and made the batch so much better.
@meliarussell at Business Insider wrote a great article with the full story & photos.
nitter.app/meliarobin/statu…
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Video went live!
thanks @calvinfo @dessaigne @RichAberman @koomen and JJ for contributing to this talk
YC's @sdianahu was the CTO of Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic.
Her advice for early-stage technical founders covers:
🚀 how to ship an MVP fast
💻 technology choices & technical debt
📈 how & when to hire an engineering team
▶️ piped.video/rP7bpYsfa6Q
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Thanks to the founders of @activeloop @StandardAI @luminai for being great speakers and giving great insights on what has been like to build AI companies before this wave
We got the YC generative AI companies together in SF for an event hosted by @sdianahu. Impossible to be here and not feel like you are seeing the future.
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Excited for this to unblock the best AI founders!!
Today we're announcing our partnership with @Microsoft to give our AI startups Azure credits and priority access to a cluster of ND A100 Azure VMs configured for model training and fine tuning.
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+1 here are some of the YC W23 OSS companies I worked with:
github.com/matanolabs/matano
github.com/noya-app/noya
github.com/ArroyoSystems/arr…
github.com/keyval-dev/odigos
github.com/resendlabs/react-…
github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilab…
github.com/thebabylonai/baby…
github.com/Infisical/infisic…
Some of the open core companies in my YC W23 group this batch:
github.com/dittofeed/dittofe…
github.com/fern-api/fern
github.com/inqueryio/inquery
github.com/Mirrorful/mirrorf…
github.com/map3xyz/superchar…
github.com/ai-sidekick/sidek…
github.com/swishjam/swishjam
github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrai…
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Congrats @aditabrm and @raunakdoesdev on continuing to grow @reductoai What was remarkable during the batch in W24 was how quickly they adjusted directions when they hit a wall on their initial idea. By the end of YC, they way surpassed their DD goal!
Excited to see what's next for them
Today, @reductoai is helping hundreds of AI teams ingest tens of millions of pages every month, and we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised an $8.4M seed round led by @firstround to continue on our mission of making human data LLM-ready.
(1/7)
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I'm excited to attend #NeurIPS next week. We'll host with @ycombinator a happy hour on Wednesday and office hours for any AI researcher curious about startups and YC
Sing up here for the happy hour: events.ycombinator.com/neurI…
for office hours: events.ycombinator.com/neurI…
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Congratulations to @bgrgndzz @emiratli_ and Arda on raising their series A for Hockeystack!
It's been awesome to see all the continuous growth!
on why we funded them since the batch in 2023 1/4
We just raised $20M in Series A funding led by Bessemer to build AI that accelerates B2B revenue.
Check it out at hockeystack.com
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thx for coming, time to build for sure ;)
Had the opportunity to attend YC x CMU talk today and it was so cool having @sdianahu @aroraharshita33 and @lucas0choa talk about starting startups. At the end, overheard one student say “Time to build a startup” (not making this up), and I think that perfectly sums up the impact
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Turns out you could also build foundation models for biology. This is what @diffuse_bio has done to build a genAI for protein discovery. What's cool is @namrata_anand2 built this during the batch by hacking computation to need less with custom kernels
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Last year when we came with @snowmaker to Boston we funded 10% of the room attendees with our talk at MIT
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Congrats @pablorpalafox @palafoxjavi @PaarupLuis! Cool to see vertical AI agents with voice starting to work in spaces like logistics
We're extremely excited to announce our $15.6M Series A led by a16z!
We're building the AI communications platform for logistics.
Go check out our new website and book a demo: happyrobot.ai.
You might be surprised who calls you back ;)
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So lucky I get to learn from Michael and one of the reasons I joined as a GP. He’s been an incredible force at YC and the batch itself has evolved as one best founder experiences because of him. Looking forward to keep working together
Some news on my next 10 years at YC: ycombinator.com/blog/michael…
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5/7 Now, you could run SOTA models that typically need HPC GPUs like H100s to make inferences on consumers or embedded GPUs like the NVIDIA Jetson.
This makes it possible for the first time to run SOTA models on embedded HW, such as robotics, that need that real-time response for inference.
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Excited to run this cohort at YC to mentor women who want to make a leap from working at a big tech co to startups.
It'll be a fun journey for sure
Please feel free to DM for any questions or email me
YC and @elpha are excited to announce a month-long series for women in engineering to learn more about working at startups. Network with YC founders, employees & build a community of peers -- and find a YC startup to join.
Learn more and apply below 👇:
blog.ycombinator.com/yc-jobs…
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3/7 So, there is no need for GPUs, which are good at floating point matrix operations, but energy and memory-hungry.
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IMO there’s so much Apple is getting right with ux+eng. Also the difference in SDKs and design philosophy between Apple and Meta are dramatically different. One is gaming native while the other has been building spatial APIs from the ground up. SDKs are the boundary condition that add constraints and influence so much of the end user experience
I’m quite excited to see what gets built on the vision pro.
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If you’re a current founder, please sign this to make SVB depositors to be made whole, and prevent many startups from unnecessarily shutting down
ycombinator.com/blog/urgent-…
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The time is now to start the company you always wanted to do. We opened up 10 more slots even though we selected most of the W24 batch to fulfill those end-of-year reflections and resolutions
If you've decided now is the time to get serious about your startup, we don't want you to miss out on the chance to participate in the W24 batch.
So we're opening up at least 10 more spots for companies that apply now via a special application process. ycombinator.com/blog/new-yea…
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6/7 What NVDIA is overlooking, is the opportunity with specialized HW for inference, since they've been focused on the high end with the HPC cluster world.
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Congrats to all the @ycombinator S22 companies that presented at demo day!! It's been incredible to see the rapid growth and work closely with them over the last couple of months 🙌
Meet them here: ycombinator.com/blog/meet-th…
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excited to be back and this time we are coming with all the group partners at YC
YC is coming to Boston!
Join us for Startup School East on April 20, and a day of YC interviews on April 21.
events.ycombinator.com/susea…
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Excited we’ll get to work together!! It’s awesome to have one more former CTO founder as a group partner at YC
I’m thrilled to announce that today I’m joining @ycombinator as a Group Partner.
This is the second time that YC has changed the course of my life.
(🧵1/10)
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Lightcone Ep2 is live! piped.video/watch?v=a_n4yOql… Should founders build for spatial computing? It's impressive what Apple has done to basically fit a self-driving car's worth of sensors/compute in a headset
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Proud to launch and ship to millions of users our cutting edge AR tech that we've been building into Niantic Real World Platform #NRWP. I am excited to see what else developers can build with our platform @NianticEng
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Today is the deadline for @ycombinator 's W23 class. It's not too late to apply. In fact, many great companies have done it at the last moment. Nothing to lose, in fact, the process itself can sharpen your thinking about your company ycombinator.com/apply
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2/ piped.video/watch?v=4Tmn-XP9…
DeepSeek proved there is a lot more room to rebuild the entire stack at a systems level
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One of the most important problems to solve
We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.
At YC, we want to support more climate tech founders working on this once-in-a-generation opportunity. @gustaf
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Video of my talk on Designing Augmented Reality Systems for Speed for #strangeloop2018 is up. If you want to join us @NianticEng and work on systems with actor models and computer vision like this feel free to message me
piped.video/watch?v=-7CcuHAS…
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excited to work more w @agupta !!
We’re excited to welcome Ankit Gupta as YC’s newest General Partner.
Ankit founded Reverie Labs (W18), a biotech startup using ML for drug discovery that was acquired by Ginkgo Bioworks, and has published research at ICML.
Now he’s bringing that experience to support YC founders building at the edge of AI.
Welcome, @agupta!
ycombinator.com/blog/welcome…
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We got 20+ OSS companies just in the W23 batch. It's been fantastic seeing how building in public has gotten them closer to their users.
We are hosting an event for future OSS founders to learn from YC OSS founders of Docker, Apollo GraphQL, and more. Join us to learn more :)
We're hosting a meetup for Open Source Software startups! YC has funded over 75 to date and we’re especially excited about them.
If you’re interested in starting an OSS company someday, join us to connect & learn with other founders in the space.
➡️ apply.ycombinator.com/events…
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@ycombinator is hosting our second curated cohort for Women Engineers interested in startups from Oct 12th - 26th. You’ll meet & receive mentorship from Women engineers and founders from YC companies
I’d encourage women engs to apply
ycombinator.com/events/yc-wo…
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Excited to be at #SIGGRAPH2018 this year. We'll have an AR booth DM or ping me if you'd like to catch up. It was fun chatting with @poljeremias
New episode Friday! The latest SIGGRAPH Spotlight is here feat. two engineering leaders from @NianticLabs + #SIGGRAPH2018 Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality Chair @poljeremias. Listen to the #podcast: bit.ly/2vzOUYd. 🎤🙌 (cc: @niniane, @sdianahu)
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7/ on costs, the controversial $5.5M is only for the FINAL training run. It doesn't include training costs of R1, R&D, HW operating expenses, or data collection. These could presumably amount to *hundreds of millions*
Given all the algos optimizations, the 5.5M on the FINAL run seems plausible. Interestingly, a Berkeley lab reproduces R1-Zero for a smaller model for $30
github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZer…
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welcome @bosmeny !!!
Hey mom – I made Partner! 💪💥
@ycombinator changed my life when they took a chance on my cofounders and me back in 2012.
Education wasn't a particularly glamorous industry at the time among investors (still isn't...). But YC recklessly entrusted us with $125,000 so we could give our idea a shot.
At Office Hours, it often felt like they believed in our idea more than we did. I'll never forget that feeling.
And back when almost no one I knew was doing startups, YC gave us a peer group of builders. Some of whom are still my closest friends 13 years later.
I'm at YC again now because I want to pay it forward and help more people experience the wild, uncertain, and thrilling adventure of startups. Let's go!!!
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