Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn said at Startup School 2026 that robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, and clean kitchens, but the key challenge is making them reliable for long…
Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, revealed at Startup School 2026 that his personal side project grew to 4.7 million weekly downloads and nearly 3,000 contributors within eight months, nearly br…
At YC Paper Club's robotics edition, researchers presented findings on embodied memory, self-supervised reasoning, dexterous sim-to-real tool use, and world action models, while Francois Chaubard note…
At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan said the next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before, and that AI agents running on personal infrastructure will co…
At YCML, YC's first machine learning research showcase at Startup School 2026, eight researchers presented papers on topics including model reasoning, formal mathematics, video agents, and robotics. N…
Starcloud, a startup founded on January 1, 2024, is building data centers in orbit to address AI's energy bottleneck, leveraging solar power and declining launch costs. The company raised $170 million…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said at Startup School 2026 that the Waymo Driver now completes 500,000 trips per week and drives over four million fully autonomous miles weekly across 15 U.S. cities, with…
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that he set Claude Tag, a new product running Claude in Slack, to rewrite the Claude desktop app from Ele…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Startup School 2026 attendees that new business creation is running at twice last year's rate, citing Stripe's own data on the AI economy. Collison, who co-founded Str…
Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that AI models have reached the capability of junior engineers, a prediction he made in May 2025, and predicted that by 2027…
At a YC Paper Club event in Mountain View, five researchers presented on performance optimization in AI, covering multi-GPU kernels, intelligence per watt, AI-written systems code, heterogeneous infer…
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importanc…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that this is the best time in history to start a company, citing AI agents that can build in minutes what took months in 2005. Altman, who…
OpenCode, an open source coding agent founded by CEO Jay V, has grown to 4.6 million weekly active users, 13 million monthly active users, and roughly $40 million in annualized revenue since the start…
Y Combinator General Partner Ankit Gupta and Visiting Partner Francois Chaubard discussed world models as a promising solution to sample efficiency, one of AI's biggest open problems, in a Decoded epi…