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Deepsilicon runs neural nets with 5x less RAM and ~20x faster. They are building SW and custom silicon for it.
What’s interesting is that they have proved it with SW, and you can even try it.
On why we funded them 1/7
Congrats to Salient on their $60 M Series A led by a16z! building AI agents for consumer loan servicing
they’re one of the fastest YC startups to get to 8-fig in rev I worked with, closing some of the largest U.S. banks just a few months after the batch
here’s how OSS
for the current generation of startups selling to enterprises, this forward-deployed engineering playbook is what gets them to 10x in revenue within a year
seen it play out for many YC startups like @happyrobot, @reductoai, @SolaAI_ , @gethockeystack , salient, and many more
Bob McGrew (@bobmcgrewai) helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades.
He was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir—where he helped pioneer the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model— and was recently Chief Research
On this episode we decoded the research and engineering behind DeepSeek
A takeaway for startups: it's a great time to build! as the cost of intelligence keeps going down
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saw some impressive projects built in <8 hrs at the ai coding hackathon today hosted by @samedotdev@morphllm@benswerd from game engines to JIT agents
here are the finalists
congrats to @reductoai 's $24.5M Series A.
this is a story on how @aditabrm and @raunakdoesdev found their startup idea and how launching during YC got them to land a large fortune 25 contract 1/7
congrats to the first Spring batch Demo Day!!
excited to see what they’ll go on to build
<0.8 % acceptance rate and >70% companies had applied with just an idea
Congratulations to @infisical! on closing a $16 M Series A led by @eladgil.
building an open-source secrets management.
companies like Hugging Face and LG already rely on them. Here’s the story of how they started and almost missed their YC interview.
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Congrats to @withdavidai $25 M Series A!
a story on how, during the YC batch, Tomer & Ben got from a niche problem in robotics to solving a big problem and becoming the first audio research data lab, building the “Common Crawl for audio"
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