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Max Junestrand: You Need The Willingness To Learn Faster Than Anyone Else
Legora's co-founder on going from $1M to $100M ARR in a year, and why domain expertise mattered less than they were told.
Expert Supervision, Diffusion, and Multilingual Scaling | YC Paper Club
This week's edition of YC Paper Club is all about the state of the art in training data.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy
The White House's top science and technology advisor on open weights, state-law preemption, and why AI regulation shouldn't hand incumbents a moat.
Susan Kare on Designing the Original Mac Icons and Why Simple Design Lasts
The designer behind the original Macintosh icons on simplicity, constraints, and making technology feel human.
Chelsea Finn on the next decade in robotics
Physical Intelligence's cofounder on how robots go from impressive demos to reliable, general-purpose systems that do valuable work in the real world.
Peter Steinberger: What Happens When Everyone Lets It Cook
How OpenClaw went from a personal side project to 4.7 million weekly downloads, and nearly broke its creator along the way.
Memory, SimToolReal, and World Action Models | YC Paper Club
A robotics edition of YC Paper Club: embodied memory, self-taught reasoning, dexterous sim-to-real, and the fastest way to run a world model.
Max Hodak: How to Build a Startup That Moves Fast
Science's CEO on purchasing systems, hiring filters, and why the boring internals decide how far you can take a company.
Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence
YC's President and CEO on working memory, skill files, and why the intelligence you rent will never compound like the intelligence you own.
Eight ML Papers, Explained by the Researchers Behind Them
At our inaugural YCML at Startup School, YC Partner Ankit Gupta spoke with eight researchers about work spanning model reasoning, formal mathematics…
Starcloud: Solving AI’s Energy Problem in Orbit
20 gigawatts in orbit against one gigawatt on the ground — Starcloud’s co-founder and CEO on why the compute is going up to space.
Dmitri Dolgov: Seven Lessons From Building AI for the Physical World
Waymo's co-CEO on world models, closed-loop simulation, and why the demo took 18 months, and the product took 15 years — because in the physical world a…
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