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Harnesses often get dismissed as just scaffolding, just prompt engineering, and not real research. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. The same model weights that score 30% on ARC-AGI score 95% with a better harness. So we gathered a group of researchers and founders
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Open models are closing the intelligence gap, says @ollama's @jmorgan. That opens up a new opportunity for founders: coordinating fast, cheap models to solve more complex problems. “We’re maybe less than three months behind between the frontier closed models and the open models.
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Sep 4
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🦙 @ollama is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan (@jmorgan) a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changing. Right now, the biggest shift he sees is toward open models, driven by
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🦙 @ollama is used by 9 million developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, giving co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Morgan (@jmorgan) a unique view into which AI models people are actually using and how that’s changing. Right now, the biggest shift he sees is toward open models, driven by
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At @heartaerospace, @AndersForslund1 built the company one material milestone at a time, using each one to earn the credibility and capital to build the next. “We really had no technology. I came to YC Demo Day with a little 3D-printed model.” “We went from having the LOIs to
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Sep 1
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YC W19's @heartaerospace just flew the largest electric airplane ever flown. Seven years ago, co-founder & CEO @AndersForslund1 came to YC with a 3D-printed model you could hold in your hand. Today, the aircraft has a 100-foot wingspan, weighs 25,000 pounds, and costs just $5 in
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Sep 3
Paul Graham on what drives founders through the hard parts: “Being dutiful is not enough. The obstacles are too fearsome for mere dutifulness.” “You know what actually motivates founders day to day? The fear of failure.” “If your server’s crashing, you’re not thinking, ‘I got
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YC visiting partner @vivianmshen sits down with Paul Graham (@paulg) at the original YC office in Mountain View to talk about startups, AI, ambition, and what makes great founders. 01:07 — Why Today’s Startups Are More Ambitious 04:09 — Frighteningly Ambitious Ideas 05:13 — What
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