half of the cs seniors in college builder communities in my network just got into yc

the more i spend time in venture the more i realize why hs debate founders translate well to startup founders

Introducing Bonsai 0.5B, one of the first ternary-weight LLMs to rival full-precision models of similar size, such as Qwen 2.5 0.5B and MobileLLM 0.5B. Trained on just 3.8B tokens, using 1,000x less data than other models, Bonsai redefines what’s possible for ultra-efficient

I've been using Onlook (onlook.com) recently and have no clue why people will use no code builders like bubble anymore if they don't want vendor lock in... I'm building frontend in onlook, mandate styling with component library, then build backend logic in cursor

it seems like every new product update for every prosumer app I use just added MCP capability this week

Saw this today in my database of AI search terms that my AI agent I'm building for people sourcing came up with.

Been very underwhelmed with the explosion of browser agent tooling and effectiveness in day to day white collar tasks (manus esp) releasing a market map on browser agents and the need for more browser agent benchmarking next few days some interesting yc x25 building here tba...

there is some insane stuff going on in chinese open source lol. you can occasionally catch glimpses of it through github trending repos like this one: github.com/harry0703/Mone… thinking of building scraping tools to surface them in US tech circles

Getting free access to enterprise grade APIs and building projects with them as a hobbyist dev is one of the best parts of being friends with current batch YC founders

I spend a month in SF and then I come back to ny for grad and see this on my rental car… how can this not be a sign lol

a good chunk of the recent yc company literally just pivoted to b2b sales enrichment agents but I'm loving it for my projects

Browser agents use computers the same way humans do, unlocking powerful use cases for personal assistants, browsers, and enterprise workflows. After talking to 20+ founders in the space, we're excited to put out the definitive market map for browser agents.

does anyone want to build an "openrouter" for every b2b sales agent enrichment api? I would pay a premium for this (but maybe its because I'm using too many startup products lol)

In NYC Mon-Wed hosting a small dinner Tuesday night with a couple spots left for high agency people considering building but not found the right idea/cofounder yet. Dm if interested!

Moved to sf recently and putting a bunch of talented people in one place consistently. Massive office space with 30+ standing desks and monitors in the middle of FiDi open 24/7. There's a kitchen, many meeting rooms, etc. (even showers 1st floor) Intention is to create a

just realized some internal tooling I built for my own sourcing and people search work is incredibly valuable for recruiters/vcs after somebody offered me 1k/month for some basic api with some minimal sft/dpo finetuning. brb gonna launch something over the weekend

Hosting an all day voice ai hackathon Aug 9th with judges from Mercor, sponsors from Hedra, Vapi, etc, and credits from all the leading voice AI models. Invite only, cap on 200 people & about 30 teams. Sent private invites out but posting here for public spots available!

A) Low latency realtime video inference via AR glasses + B) low latency deep research on anything u prompt, going into github/socials/all of the internet + C) voice commands. Building it in something super compact that goes thru TSA is even crazier Hacked B & C for myself and