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We're excited to announce Diana Hu (
@sdianahu
) as YC's newest Managing Partner. Diana co-founded Escher Reality (YC S17), which was acquired by Niantic, where she shipped AR to the 100M+ people playing Pokémon GO. Since returning to YC as a partner, she has worked with nearly - Y Combinator reposted
A couple years ago it would’ve seemed crazy/creepy to record every meeting and conversation. Now it feels crazy not to. Most companies still don’t know this yet though, and the ones that do have a major advantage. - Y Combinator reposted
one YC founder this batch went from 0to0 to 0to30K MRR in 2 months, entirely by showing up to his prospects' offices in person. he'll sit w/ engineers until they fully set up his product one company kicked him out after he went there 4 times in 1 week. but his close rate is >50%. - Y Combinator reposted
Good take My guess is - demand for intelligence is near infinite - but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months - 20% of workloads will still run on latest gen models where IQ maxing is important (scientific breakthroughs, higher level - Y Combinator reposted
In AI most people are still trying to use old maps on a new territory. Throw the maps away. It's time to draw new ones. The only way you can do it is walking the land.
Aster (
@asterailabs
) is building the autonomous research lab. They run thousands of AI agents in parallel to achieve 1000x speedups in autonomous research. Their lab just set a world record on ProteinGym in 30 minutes—and now they're automating open-ended research. Congrats on- Y Combinator reposted
So proud of
@datacurve
(YC W24) - building THE defining software engineering benchmark in DeepSWE Tired? SWE-Bench Pro Wired? Datacurve DeepSWE - Y Combinator reposted
Imagine thousands of agents working for you on the web 🤔 This is why we rebuilt Browser Use: > Made for long-running tasks > Creates its own harness for any task > [NEW] Browser Use Terminal All it takes is one command. Try it now ↓ - Y Combinator reposted
a common question investors will ask you when you're fundraising is "what does this look like in 5 years?" these days, the honest answer is often "nobody knows." investors aren't grading you on prophecy. they're grading you on thoughtfulness. show them you're at the - Y Combinator reposted
today, we're open sourcing the Extend CLI watch Fable use it to parse and extract an entire corpus of documents — end to end, without leaving the terminal try it yourself: npm install -g @extend-ai/cli it comes with a built-in agent skill, so claude code/codex/cursor know how - Y Combinator reposted
We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following
@ycombinator
's 15 rules: 1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand. 2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 - Y Combinator reposted
Yes, Starcloud-1 runs DOOM on its H100. Hardest part of running DOOM in orbit wasn't radiation, thermals, or bandwidth. It was resisting the urge to do this on day one.