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Diana
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- Deepsilicon runs neural nets with 5x less RAM and ~20x faster. They are building SW and custom silicon for it. Whatβs interesting is that they have proved it with SW, and you can even try it. On why we funded them 1/7
GIF - Congrats to Salient on their $60β―M Seriesβ―A led by a16z! building AI agents for consumer loan servicing theyβre 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 hereβs how OSS
00:00 - 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 moreBob 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 Palantirβwhere he helped pioneer the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) modelβ and was recently Chief Research
00:00 - 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 1/n
- 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
- 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
00:00 - congrats to the first Spring batch Demo Day!! excited to see what theyβll go on to build <0.8 % acceptance rate and >70% companies had applied with just an idea
- 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.
- 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. Hereβs the story of how they started and almost missed their YC interview. 1/6
00:00 - 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
GIFluma.comAI Coding Agents Hackathon Β· LumaAI Coding Agents Hackathon @ YC Office Hosted at Y Combinator by Anthropic, Freestyle, Same.new and Morph LLM. π Join the Ultimate AI Coding Agent Hackathonβ¦ - 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/pipecat-geminiβ¦ We'll offer guaranteed YC interviews to the winners
- A summary of my talk earlier today on "how to build and succeed as a technical founder" for @ycombinator @startupschool (meme edition) π§΅
- 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 βCommon Crawl for audio" 1/6
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