Y Combinator
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François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
57mMar 27, 2026
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI
How A Team Of 7 Keeps Breaking AI Benchmark Records
19mFeb 27, 2026
How A Team Of 7 Keeps Breaking AI Benchmark Records
Boris Cherny: How We Built Claude Code
50mFeb 17, 2026
Inside Claude Code: terminals, tool-use, iteration, and model-driven design
We're All Addicted To Claude Code
45mFeb 6, 2026
Why Claude Code’s CLI agents are reshaping how engineers build
The Truth About The AI Bubble
30mDec 22, 2025
YC Explores AI Bubble Fears, Model Wars, And Startup Stability
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI
44mDec 3, 2025
Inside Amplitude’s Painful, All-In Reinvention As An AI-Native Company
AI Is Eating Logistics
33mNov 14, 2025
AI Supercharges Flexport, Slashing Global Shipping Costs And Complexity
Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI
21mOct 30, 2025
Enterprise AI Struggles Give Ambitious Startups A Rare Opening Shot
Billion-Dollar Unpopular Startup Ideas
37mOct 17, 2025
Why Contrarian, Unpopular Ideas Often Become Billion-Dollar Startups
The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups
45mOct 3, 2025
Seven Enduring Moats Every Ambitious AI Startup Must Master Fast
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
50mSep 8, 2025
Palantir’s Forward Deployed Model Becomes Blueprint For AI Agent Startups
Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design
35mAug 19, 2025
Anthropic Co-founder on Scaling AI, Claude Code, and Startup Grit
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era
38mJul 8, 2025
Young Builders, Real Value: Thriving In Your 20s Amid AI Upheaval
Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work With Agents & Competing With China
1h 1mJun 18, 2025
Alexandr Wang on Scale AI, Agentic Workflows, and U.S.–China AI Rivalry
State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
31mMay 30, 2025
Inside Frontier AI Startups: Meta Prompting, Evals, And Forward-Deployed Founders
Startup Ideas You Can Now Build With AI
40mMay 16, 2025
AI Unleashes Previously Impossible Startups, From Recruiting To Full-Stack Services
Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding
52mMay 2, 2025
Windsurf CEO on rapid pivots, AI agents, and democratized software building
How Top 1% Founders Navigate Co-founder Conflict
43mMar 21, 2025
Top 1% founders reveal hard truths about co-founder conflict
Vibe Coding Is The Future
31mMar 5, 2025
Vibe Coding Transforms Software Engineers Into Product-Focused System Architects Worldwide
How AI Is Changing Enterprise
49mFeb 19, 2025
Enterprise AI Revolution: From Commodity Intelligence To Explosive Software Growth
How To Get AI Startup Ideas
43mFeb 7, 2025
From Hackathon Hacks To Billion-Dollar AI: Finding Real Ideas
AI Revolution: What Nobody Else Is Seeing
39mJan 24, 2025
AI Agents Explode Startup Growth, Redefining Work, Wealth, And Software
The Lightcone 2025 Forecast
7mJan 1, 2025
AI Nobels, Stablecoin Payments, Doge Politics, and 3D Turing Tests
2024: The Year the GPT Wrapper Myth Proved Wrong
38mDec 13, 2024
2024 Shatters GPT-Wrapper Myth As Vertical AI Startups Explode
Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS
42mNov 22, 2024
Vertical AI Agents Poised To Eclipse SaaS And Reshape Workforces
Why The Next AI Breakthroughs Will Be In Reasoning, Not Scaling
35mNov 14, 2024
AI’s Next Leap: Reasoning Engines Transform Science, Chips, And Startups
The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ
33mNov 1, 2024
Ten-Trillion-Parameter AI: From 300 IQ Models To Startup Goldrush
Now Anyone Can Code: How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
37mOct 18, 2024
AI Coding Agents Turn Simple Ideas Into Fully Deployed Apps Instantly
Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
37mOct 4, 2024
Legal AI Pioneer Reveals Blueprint For Billion-Dollar Vertical Agents
Building The World's Best Image Diffusion Model
55mSep 19, 2024
Playground Reinvents Image Generation As A True Graphic Design Partner
How YC Was Created With Jessica Livingston
58mSep 6, 2024
Jessica Livingston Reveals How Y Combinator’s Unusual DNA Was Forged
Are We In An AI Hype Cycle?
37mAug 22, 2024
AI Boom Or Bubble? YC Partners Dissect Today’s Explosive Hype Cycle
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
48mAug 9, 2024
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit insists AI must empower individual freedom
10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
38mJun 27, 2024
AI Coders, Tiny Teams, And Why Learning To Code Still Matters
Better AI Models, Better Startups
41mJun 6, 2024
How Better AI Models Open Massive Opportunities For Startup Founders
Why This Is The Perfect Time To Start A Startup
19mMay 17, 2024
Why College Is Your Best Moment Ever To Start A Startup
Lightcone: Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate
42mApr 25, 2024
YC’s AI Supercycle: Consumer Revival, Dev Tools Boom, Crypto Cools Off
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality
48mApr 11, 2024
YC Reveals How Hard Tech Startups Turn Sci‑Fi Into Reality
How To Build Generative AI Models Like OpenAI's Sora
34mMar 28, 2024
Building Powerful Generative AI Without Billions: Lessons Beyond Sora
The best AI founders in the world are moving here
33mMar 15, 2024
San Francisco’s AI ‘Cerebral Valley’ Sparks a New Tech Boom Loop
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?
27mFeb 21, 2024
Apple Vision Pro: High-End AR Platform Poised For Startup Breakthroughs
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today
32mFeb 8, 2024
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