Convex, the application backend startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, Spark Capital,…
Weave, a Y Combinator-backed startup, raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to help companies measure the productivity of AI coding tools and prevent developers from tokenmaxxing. The San Francisco…
A developer built a production-ready OCR service using PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 after finding no trusted provider, achieving a cost of roughly $1 per 1,000 pages. The service undercuts competitors like Mistra…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, Google DeepMind's Paige Bailey introduced Gemma 4, an open model under Apache 2.0 optimized for Cerebras, challenging the notion that open models are inferior to comme…
Weave released a smart model routing proxy that works with Claude, Codex, and Cursor, ranking #1 on the RouterArena leaderboard. The open-source tool uses an on-box embedder to select the best model p…
Polyvia released Polyvia 1, a multimodal document retrieval API and upcoming platform for enterprise agents, enabling sub-200ms search over 100K+ files including PDFs, charts, and slides. The API prov…
A developer argues that while AI excels at reading data from documents, the write step—filling forms—should be deterministic, not probabilistic, for compliance-critical documents. They advocate for a …
Unsiloed AI's document parser v3.1 achieved the top rank on the olmOCR-Bench benchmark with an 88.0% strict pass rate, outperforming 18 other OCR services including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, LlamaPars…
The Y Combinator (YC) AI Stack is a new initiative offering students who attend YC events a package of free credits for AI development tools, valued at over $25,000. The package includes cloud credits…