There’s no such thing as a perfect investment. It’s all about deciding which risks you can live with and at what price.

we got our picks. GovernGPT Corefin ParcelBio Blume MathDash Tracecat

TennisAlt Every YC partner picks companies differently. Personally, I strongly prefer working with companies with multiple cofounders. They are much less likely to get sad and give up early.

In the last few weeks, some of the world's largest private equity and hedge fund managers have chosen to partner with us over incumbents (with 10X the headcount) such as 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘀, 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗼, 𝗤𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 and 𝗥𝗙𝗣𝗜𝗢.

arxiv might kill small universities and labs. i love arxiv & open access, and agree that journals are pretty toxic, but arxiv leads to a credentialing of academia and i'm unsure we've considered the second-order effects. arxiv lets people publish ~unfiltered work, so readers

Mamal Amini I'm sure there's a technical fix people will try: Weigh the citations/impact with some expected value based on existing h-index/university ranking. A bit like TF-IDF. But I'm sure that can be gamed and people will game it. I don't really have a good solution – I mostly read

100% Fully Software 2.0 computer. Just a single neural net and no classical software at all. Device inputs (audio video, touch etc) directly feed into a neural net, the outputs of it directly display as audio/video on speaker/screen, that’s it.

How can machine learning students make an impact in their work? Canada CIFAR AI Chair Sarath Chandar (Mila - Institut québécois d'IA Polytechnique Mtl Université de Montréal) gives advice to ML students about the value of engaging in applied projects in addition to academic work.

Figure update: 31 months after establishing our company, Figure now generates revenue! This week, we delivered Figure-02 humanoid robots to our commercial client, & they're currently hard at work x.com/adcock_brett/s…

Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental The model pauses to "think" through complex problems like OpenAI's o1, but is free to use through AI Studio and the Gemini API x.com/lmarena_ai/sta…

Researchers introduced ExBody2 an advanced whole-body controller for humanoid robots It essentially allows humanoids to mimic human-like motions better through training with RL in simulation and transferring to real robots x.com/xuxin_cheng/st…

Even the richest guy on earth pulls the “it’s oversubscribed” line when raising money.

Anthropic just dropped an incredible guide on "How To Build Effective Agents" 2025 will be the year of AGENTS 🤖 Here's everything you need to know: 🧵

🧑‍💻 Request for Design Partners 👩‍💻 At YC, I work with a number of highly technical young founders who can build mind-blowing stuff with the latest AI-based tools. But they don't yet have connections to old, established industries, and so they're struggling to identify problems

Biggest leverage I see with AI, isn’t the first product - it’s the second and third product that’s built on on top of the first product.

I strongly believe A-player leverage will 10x over the next few years. The overlap of passion and aptitude is the only way to win.

Growth is non-linear; more importantly you can amass leverage in exponential fashion.