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I learned today that several YC series A companies are so profitable with tiny teams that they beat quant salaries for top new grads - Y Combinator reposted
almost 1/10 unicorns in the world went through @ycombinator - Y Combinator reposted
The calm before the storm, getting ready to open the doors for Alumni Demo Day
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How to Earn a Billion Dollars: paulgraham.com/earn.html - Y Combinator repostedA couple years ago it would’ve seemed crazy/creepy to record every meeting and conversation. Now it feels crazy not to. Most companies still don’t know this yet though, and the ones that do have a major advantage.
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one YC founder this batch went from $0 to $30K MRR in 2 months, entirely by showing up to his prospects' offices in person. he'll sit w/ engineers until they fully set up his product one company kicked him out after he went there 4 times in 1 week. but his close rate is >50%. - Y Combinator reposted
Good take My guess is - demand for intelligence is near infinite - but 80% of workloads will be running on 99% cheaper models within 12-18 months - 20% of workloads will still run on latest gen models where IQ maxing is important (scientific breakthroughs, higher levelThe most basic way AI could blow up imo. I'm not saying it does but this is the most obvious way I can see it happening - Per seat subscriptions are massively subsidized. The flat fee was priced way below what heavy usage actually costs - For real business use you have to move - Aster (@asterailabs) is building the autonomous research lab. They run thousands of AI agents in parallel to achieve 1000x speedups in autonomous research. Their lab just set a world record on ProteinGym in 30 minutes—and now they're automating open-ended research. Congrats on
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So proud of @datacurve (YC W24) - building THE defining software engineering benchmark in DeepSWE Tired? SWE-Bench Pro Wired? Datacurve DeepSWEWe've updated the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, replacing SWE-Bench Pro with Datacurve's DeepSWE benchmark - the swap lifts Codex with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) above Claude Code with Opus 4.8 (max), while the newly released Claude Fable 5 (max) in Claude Code debuts at the top
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Imagine thousands of agents working for you on the web 🤔 This is why we rebuilt Browser Use: > Made for long-running tasks > Creates its own harness for any task > [NEW] Browser Use Terminal All it takes is one command. Try it now ↓
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00:41Introducing Browser Use 0.13.0 [beta] 🏴☠️ > The old Browser Use was built for GPT-4. > This one was built for SOTA models. Custom LLM Harness. Custom Browser Harness. In Rust. 👇
