Interesting observation: both of these groups are overwhelmingly in rooms comprised of said groups and not much else

“[YC is] a relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place”-Paul Graham YC has shifted our trajectory by OOMs. The collective wealth of knowledge Garry Tan, Dalton Caldwell and others have imbued in us is invaluable. Apply and increase the surface area of your luck.

This is an excellent example of why it's vital to ensure everyone has tools to audit and customize intelligence, not just a handful of frontier labs.

AI policy cannot be written solely by the people set to profit from deployment. We already saw what happens when economic incentives dominate policy; the public interest disappears from the conversation. Models that decide credit limits or medical triage require input from

Indian AI is COOKED >$50M+ raised >24 downloads after four days (check HF history) >benchmarking reasoning model against conventional

81 chapters of a sloppified Tao Te Ching with Rick Rubin associated for some reason very Anthropic indeed

while all our friends were at presidio for memorial day, my cto was fixing a deployment for a fortune 20 client this is why you will lose, and we will win.

>wrote down "I will be the CEO of Intel" in his 20s you can just do things.

over 500 people want in to our YC Startup School afters, >20% of all attendees we rejected 85%+ of them keeping the bar extremely high is essential going to be a night to remember 👀

asked the best climber in the world what was harder than scaling el cap his answer? "b2b saas"

taste is king, amidst an oleaginous sea of slop

watch out TBPN 👀

After 12+ years, 25 batches, and the privilege of advising >1,000+ startups, I’m transitioning to Partner Emeritus at Y Combinator. YC changed my life. I’m grateful to the thousands of founders who trusted me with their journeys, my fellow YC partners and teammates, and to Paul,

thanks b2b saas (James Reggio)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...Waymos on fire off the shoulder of the 101..."

never seen a group of more cracked students than at our AI startup school afters 2 IOI gold medalists, 3 IMO gold/silver medalists, Putnam fellows…unreal thanks Y Combinator and Gradient for helping put together an amazing night

Only CTGT knows what's "actually working in enterprise AI" Everything else is low RoI, smoke and mirrors, or a combination of both venturebeat.com/ai/announcing-…