Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:18 - Intro 00:25 - How To Prepare 01:39 - Benefit Of Hindsight 02:54 - The Time Is Now 04:56 - Where To Work 06:49 - The Right Skills 09:37 - Become A User 11:46 - Don't Do Nothing 14:07 - Our Predictions 15:48 - Outro
Well somewhat true. People did predominantly use desktop apps for email before gmail. Gmail was an inflection point for the growth of webapps. But there were and there still are limits to what is possible on the web and so desktop apps are still here. Especially for power users. This is probably the most healthy perspective. AI makes new stuff possible and it surplants some of the existing stuff, but a big chunk of old stuff still has reason to exist. Don't think you can ignore using ai, and don't think you can ignore knowing how to do stuff yourself.
I’m from Brazil. This year I traveled to the US West Coast and to the US East Coast. Nowhere else I could feel a bigger FOMO than in Silicon Valley. It’s not just YC videos. It’s the whole SV atmosphere that causes this feeling. Thank you for sharing that with us from the rest of the world, Michael and Dalton! Let’s ride that wave!! I hope to be a YC founder one day! 💪
02:12 Now is a prime time to leverage AI for new business opportunities. 04:18 Embrace AI adoption in your career and choose forward-thinking workplaces. 06:09 Startups are outperforming large companies in AI skill acquisition. 08:08 Upskill through accessible learning and embrace new technology today. 10:10 Embrace and actively use emerging AI tools for better productivity. 12:03 Capitalize on knowledge in tech; understanding programming remains valuable. 13:58 Technical expertise is crucial for leveraging AI advancements in startup success.
TBH, this video gave me a serious case of FOMO. Over the past year, I've been working on developing LLM-wrapper apps, but I kept running into the same problem-thinking, 'This just isn’t working; LLMs aren’t quite capable enough yet.' But Dalton and Michael talked about seeing impressive results from some YC startups building with AI, which has really piqued my curiosity. Now I can’t help but wonder: what are some of the standout examples among the many AI startups YC has funded over the past two years?
7:01 so true! I don’t recommend anyone joining big tech unless AI is a major commitment. Pet projects get shut down as soon as they realize it’s hard to train models etc.
Okay, Re: Open-Source learning resources mentioned around 8:30 - It would be nice to get a list of the top recommended resources for us interested in doing just that. Any tips?
What videos and resources do you recommend reading and watching since we are at ground zero and wanting to learn. I am not in the tech world but want to pivot … what are the best boot camps to learn to take advantage of this opportunity? There’s so much information out there that sometimes one doesn’t know if it’s the best videos to watch.. please advise!
You cherrypicking successful trends from the past. I am not saying that AI is a fad; it's certainly not, and it is the most profound direction of development now. But to be fair to the listeners, you should also mention fad technologies (which were many) that had the same groundbreaking vibe but ended up in a trashcan of history. That's how you can distinguish worthy and not worthy directions instead of jumping on any hype happening right now.
@AmirulHamizan NFTs, most of cryptocurrencies, lot's of battery tech that have not passed real world tests, hundreds and hundreds of google projects that were closed, 95% of startups...
@@AmirulHamizan IoT, VR, driverless cars, crypto, nft, ai every decade or so is hyped up like crazy them fails to live up to its earth shattering expectations. That dos not mean LLMs useless, they are a great tool but nothing more, we need to take them for what they are and not what all the hype peddlers with a financial interest in their success continue to sell us on its so called certain future.
@@AmirulHamizanVR, had plenty of early adopters, but it has been 10 years and we’re still in the early adopter phase (saying as the proud sequential owner of every Quest headset released)
If I want to develop an AI application, what should I focus on learning? Should I delve into the technical workings of large language models (LLMs), perhaps by watching videos by Andrej Karpathy, or is it sufficient to understand the capabilities of existing AI tools and focus on creating something that meets people’s needs? In other words, how important is it for me to learn the technical details?
I studied Machine learning for my masters. I suggest u concentrate on creating something that meets people's needs. Diving into the technical aspects will take u time and its a rabbit hole that is so deep u wont come out of it. Learn basic technical details such as how models work and in which situations r they best suited, their pros and cons.
@@worldcomingtoanend Thank you so much for sharing your insights! 🙏 I really appreciate your guidance, especially since it feels credible coming from someone with a background in this field.
@@peternagy3227 Essentially he just said to learn the technical details of refining a model and then making a LLM wrapper product which is basically gambling for programmers now alongside memecoins.
you had a video titled "Why AI Hasn’t Blown Our Minds…Yet" just 2 months back. Could you please give us more insight on what changed in just 2 months to make this video, adjust/change your opinion?
my question is what ideas can be worked on that won't be swallowed whole by future models? with the ground shifting so quickly, how can you build a business?
Smart phones, social media even websites were all written off initially. However I have learnt to wait and see these things flourish. Even if some tech does not become big, learning the skills never hurt !!
6:00 Being surrounded by the right team and people is integral When I was tech lead for a govt innovation team I made a “gpt3 wrapper” pre ChatGPT and it got some good feedback but wasn’t at all taken on 🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️ A lot of the time X idea could be amazing but due to your surroundings they don’t see the vision, hence why SF and YC are quite integral for increasing your chances of success
Great video... couldn't agree more. Looking back and I'm already glad to have pivoted my work toward AI animation early on... mid '2022. Rather that sticking still with my 10 year old studio. Now have the #1-#2 website on the subject of AI Animation. A decent audience and been able to pivot full time to the subject and dev pursuits. It's lead to AI Consulting projects for some cool project names, plus I've rolled out a few courses... not the end goal.. but it keeps the lights on and helps fund the solo dev projects with those $M goals. Various prototypes for AI use cases always bubbling along.. (I really... REALLY need to get at least one of those released soon). Either way the dev time on these prototypes lead to a broad understanding of AWS computing, React, APIs etc... Which I think, combined with the focus on a specific area (professional AI animation) will remain useful.
Thanks for your videos. I completely agree. I work on llm agents for internal apis in a traditional company and the first demo after few months kept some coworkers speechless. I completely can see how this will affect the future. I can see myself starting a company, but I don't see a viable business idea.
By a tiny fraction of humans pushing it on the rest of everyone else who aren't ultimately doing it for the sake of human evolution, but for overtaking humans by ASI (ultimate goal of the AI revolutionaries). But they are confident of course that THEY will remain in control.
Ive learnt alot in the past year from Prof Ngs course specifically, but I dont have ideas to build and maybe lack the confidence :(, I dont want to stop tho, Ill try building just for the sake of building
Thank you for all the insights. What would be the best advice you would give to someone who isn’t tech-savvy and wants to build a startup but doesn’t know what to focus on learning? I feel overwhelmed seeing how many coding languages are out there. Thanks guys :)
I'm 16 and I'm doing an AI automation business. Solopreneur right now. The problem I have is that I will probably want to scale, but almost no one has the necessary knowledge and skills. Training is hard. Any advice?
I'm a VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) developer at a small company, I want to start a startup in the comming 5 months and now I'm looking for co-founders, my previous startup (in generative AI space) got accepted into Microsoft for founders hub, if you are a technical, innovative or market person reply me here to discuss more. 😊
I believe we're at the mainframe stage for AI, and we'll get today's models or better running on local consumer hardware within 10ish years. Then we'll get ASI in the mainframe, and then some years after that, ASI will be on local consumer hardware. It's going to be wild.
What’s regarded as a technical cofounder? Should they be knowledgeable as a product manager or systems architect or should they have a deep understanding of coding and building AI models? Especially true for coders that are being replaced by AI writing robust code.
Likely within a decade "the technical co-founder" will be one of the next models that is an AGI system that is both agentic and autonomous and that will be smart enough to spook whoever takes it on. That's where we are ultimately headed. It is so entertaining and terrifying to watch the circular arguments about AI hype e.g., "it's just predicting the next word, it will never be able to reason" while those same people fully embrace the "go fast and break things" credo of silicone valley that is rushing toward developing AGI/ASI. I always ask, "so which is it?"
I don't have to imaging using the first web browsers. I had already been using the internet for years when they came around. It's an apt comparison, though.
NINETY seconds in and I feel like I’m being pitched an AI product. Leveraging FOMO and all as well. At this point YC’s channel is just part of their funnel, not even meant to educate anymore.
Well I can understand why you would make that argument, but I am genuinely curious let say it's a part of their funnel, then doesn't that mean they want more people to have this skill so that they can invest more. Now if a big VC is betting that more of such companies will be valuable, don't you think we should try to build that skill too?
This is flawed argument. How does one contradict the other? Why is it so hard to believe that 'helping their marketing funnel' and 'educating people' can have major overlap? The fact that they have personal interest in promoting AI does not mean that promoting AI is bad
The rate of progress makes determining how to invest your time very challenging. If AGI is indeed 1-5 years out, how should engineers and entrepreneurs be spending their time? Piggybacking on the AI wave seems like it's just going to expedite the inevitable automation of :allthethings:, which I'm not sure yet is a good thing.
lol the comments make me laugh. I’ve watched numerous videos of Michael and Dalton cooling the fire on AI. This is one (if not the first) time that I’ve really heard them push its time to jump on the AI train. Good to see them finally shift their position and give us the heads up.
Would love to hear from Y combinator how folks can found companies that won’t get steamrolled by OpenAI. If they’re building AGI, how can you make something and not get steamrolled?
The thing about YC is that it's not about innovation or creation but who it fundamentally helps out more. It's an incubator for Wallstreet and investment firms to strategically buy out the start-up or die. YC is a great company don't get me wrong, its core values are flawed and ethically wrong in terms of controlling who it helps. My question is, why isn't YC a PBC if it's a sound business model ?
Dalton & Michael, I am applying to YC winter batch, my startup falls in category of both B2B SaaS and Hard tech? Is there any guidance on which category to choose?
I am B Pharm graduate and i want to Change career but i always make decisions in IT sector then suggest is it good or should go in other careers If it's good then what's and where should I start in IT sector like full stack developer,app development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, etc Please show me path whatever is
We will have true democracy because no single person will hold and be able to print a central currency. Currency will be defined by value of a company or person or group of persons working toward the same goal and capitalizing on them.
I just left everything including a company i bootstrapped to 2M $ ARR a month with profits(interior design executors), to hands of my father, and moved to chennai yesterday to found my AI company , we are building a AI dental crm first
I have 10 year exp in AR/VR game industry, can i learn AI now ? I want to start AI product company but i have no knowledge in AI, not sure if it makes sense to be the AI engineer in this case
wow those improving models are making life so much better. poverty, hunger, misinformation, crime, wars, homelessness - it's all gone!!! oh wait - it's just marketers and scammers that benefit...
Yeah, I agree, but as someone in the middle of it building a new product, working through bugs and customer issues, the occasional message of reaffirmation is helpful to motivate powering though the muck of building a new company even if there's no new information in the video
Can someone please answer what's the best place to learn about all this, back when i was in school people followed AndrewNG like a bible. Please suggest where i can build my technical expertise ?
The real breakthroughs in AI applications may not come from programmers, but from people in various industries who are constantly watching AI's progress and looking for ways to apply it in their fields. By teaming up with developers to create software and launch companies, these domain experts can lead the way. In fact, as AI evolves, programming itself may become obsolete, empowering anyone to build their own software. The next wave of successful founders will likely be industry experts who are proactive about using AI in their domains, rather than programmers.
There's a gap between knowing that mobile will be a huge thing and developing Waze, Uber, or Angry Birds. I know LLM's are improving, and Meta will probably release a free an omni voice-to-voice model like GPT-4o, but it's still difficult to know how to leverage the new technology. It's more complicated than buying a GPU and mining bitcoin.
I feel that GenAI is much more fundamental from a CPA perspective. Yet, at the same time, accessible. It's doing to text what spreadsheets did to numbers. Before VisiCalc, numbers were static entities requiring specialist knowledge to manipulate. Spreadsheets transformed them into dynamic, manipulable tools that reshaped how businesses operate. Similarly, GenAI is turning text from fixed content into fluid, programmable material that anyone can shape and analyze. This isn't just another tech wave - it's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with information itself.
You guys are laughing a bit too much. Did someone lace your juice with shroomz 😂. Good info though. I’m in Kenya. I have a couple of ideas I wanna build but I’m having difficulty raising 100 dollars to just pay for tokens. Any wellwisher wanna give me a shot?
Meh, AI has some nice use-cases that we've been leveraging for over a decade, like Google Vision. It's not a 10T upgrade though. LLMs aren't really that great, and there's no goldmine here, only people selling shovels.
I think this is too rosy, you forgot to mention the pace at which things are moving in this sector. Within a year whatever you learnt is phased out by some Zero-shot LLM model, which is phased out in another year by some AI Agentic system. Unless you're really young, a super quick learner or you don't have any ego working for folks way younger than you, be careful 😂😂
I think there actually is hype about AI, but in different areas, statements like: all software developers will be replaced by AI, or AI will take over humans in near future. Also, if a person has no innovative business idea and they just want to ride the AI wave to become a billionaire is an illusion. It is quite different from phenomena like Bitcoin, which I could just buy and wait. That was my penny + another penny! 😆
Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) -
00:00 - Coming Up
00:18 - Intro
00:25 - How To Prepare
01:39 - Benefit Of Hindsight
02:54 - The Time Is Now
04:56 - Where To Work
06:49 - The Right Skills
09:37 - Become A User
11:46 - Don't Do Nothing
14:07 - Our Predictions
15:48 - Outro
Too true. I used to think air fryers were all hype. When I think of the missed years I could have been eating crispy nuggets!
😂😂😂
I remember signing up and using Gmail the first time. It was mind blowing! I remember the narrative becoming “the end of desktop apps”.
Well somewhat true. People did predominantly use desktop apps for email before gmail. Gmail was an inflection point for the growth of webapps. But there were and there still are limits to what is possible on the web and so desktop apps are still here. Especially for power users. This is probably the most healthy perspective. AI makes new stuff possible and it surplants some of the existing stuff, but a big chunk of old stuff still has reason to exist. Don't think you can ignore using ai, and don't think you can ignore knowing how to do stuff yourself.
"Ambivalence and cynicism are the only gatekeepers" - This is one of the best life and business videos I have ever watched.
Just using simple AI automations in my business was enough to convince me. This convinced me start learning the basics.
Like what automations?
I’m from Brazil. This year I traveled to the US West Coast and to the US East Coast. Nowhere else I could feel a bigger FOMO than in Silicon Valley. It’s not just YC videos. It’s the whole SV atmosphere that causes this feeling.
Thank you for sharing that with us from the rest of the world, Michael and Dalton!
Let’s ride that wave!!
I hope to be a YC founder one day! 💪
Thank you for spreading... fear? I don't know, this fear of "oh no, I won't get rich quick" doesn't really seem to be helping humanity any more.
02:12 Now is a prime time to leverage AI for new business opportunities.
04:18 Embrace AI adoption in your career and choose forward-thinking workplaces.
06:09 Startups are outperforming large companies in AI skill acquisition.
08:08 Upskill through accessible learning and embrace new technology today.
10:10 Embrace and actively use emerging AI tools for better productivity.
12:03 Capitalize on knowledge in tech; understanding programming remains valuable.
13:58 Technical expertise is crucial for leveraging AI advancements in startup success.
The first half of the video can be summarized as hindsight is 20/20.
TBH, this video gave me a serious case of FOMO. Over the past year, I've been working on developing LLM-wrapper apps, but I kept running into the same problem-thinking, 'This just isn’t working; LLMs aren’t quite capable enough yet.' But Dalton and Michael talked about seeing impressive results from some YC startups building with AI, which has really piqued my curiosity. Now I can’t help but wonder: what are some of the standout examples among the many AI startups YC has funded over the past two years?
I'd like to know this as well.
7:01 so true! I don’t recommend anyone joining big tech unless AI is a major commitment. Pet projects get shut down as soon as they realize it’s hard to train models etc.
i'm so excited for what's coming to AI in the near future; what a time to be alive!
Okay, Re: Open-Source learning resources mentioned around 8:30 - It would be nice to get a list of the top recommended resources for us interested in doing just that.
Any tips?
Feels a bit we are already at the point where it’s more convenient to sell shovels.
I'm having anxiety of not doing the right thing actually. This is on point
I currently work at a big company where using gen AI is a political and PR decision😂. That one really hit when Michael said it.
What videos and resources do you recommend reading and watching since we are at ground zero and wanting to learn. I am not in the tech world but want to pivot … what are the best boot camps to learn to take advantage of this opportunity? There’s so much information out there that sometimes one doesn’t know if it’s the best videos to watch.. please advise!
You cherrypicking successful trends from the past. I am not saying that AI is a fad; it's certainly not, and it is the most profound direction of development now. But to be fair to the listeners, you should also mention fad technologies (which were many) that had the same groundbreaking vibe but ended up in a trashcan of history. That's how you can distinguish worthy and not worthy directions instead of jumping on any hype happening right now.
Give me 1 fad tech trend?
@AmirulHamizan NFTs, most of cryptocurrencies, lot's of battery tech that have not passed real world tests, hundreds and hundreds of google projects that were closed, 95% of startups...
@@AmirulHamizanVR industry especially apple and meta not to mention google glasses that who’re seen as a revolutionary but. Nothing today
@@AmirulHamizan IoT, VR, driverless cars, crypto, nft, ai every decade or so is hyped up like crazy them fails to live up to its earth shattering expectations. That dos not mean LLMs useless, they are a great tool but nothing more, we need to take them for what they are and not what all the hype peddlers with a financial interest in their success continue to sell us on its so called certain future.
@@AmirulHamizanVR, had plenty of early adopters, but it has been 10 years and we’re still in the early adopter phase (saying as the proud sequential owner of every Quest headset released)
If I want to develop an AI application, what should I focus on learning? Should I delve into the technical workings of large language models (LLMs), perhaps by watching videos by Andrej Karpathy, or is it sufficient to understand the capabilities of existing AI tools and focus on creating something that meets people’s needs? In other words, how important is it for me to learn the technical details?
I studied Machine learning for my masters. I suggest u concentrate on creating something that meets people's needs. Diving into the technical aspects will take u time and its a rabbit hole that is so deep u wont come out of it. Learn basic technical details such as how models work and in which situations r they best suited, their pros and cons.
@@worldcomingtoanend Thank you so much for sharing your insights! 🙏 I really appreciate your guidance, especially since it feels credible coming from someone with a background in this field.
@@peternagy3227 Essentially he just said to learn the technical details of refining a model and then making a LLM wrapper product which is basically gambling for programmers now alongside memecoins.
you had a video titled "Why AI Hasn’t Blown Our Minds…Yet" just 2 months back. Could you please give us more insight on what changed in just 2 months to make this video, adjust/change your opinion?
Nothing's changed.. they're promoting their portfolio companies and the vertical as a whole. Not very well, I must add..
o1 models and openai getting even more money from the latest venture round
my question is what ideas can be worked on that won't be swallowed whole by future models? with the ground shifting so quickly, how can you build a business?
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Smart phones, social media even websites were all written off initially. However I have learnt to wait and see these things flourish. Even if some tech does not become big, learning the skills never hurt !!
What are some good resources to getting started, please?
I learnt a lot from both of you
Michel plus dalton , please continue it and keep sharing
6:00 Being surrounded by the right team and people is integral
When I was tech lead for a govt innovation team I made a “gpt3 wrapper” pre ChatGPT and it got some good feedback but wasn’t at all taken on 🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️
A lot of the time X idea could be amazing but due to your surroundings they don’t see the vision, hence why SF and YC are quite integral for increasing your chances of success
Great video... couldn't agree more.
Looking back and I'm already glad to have pivoted my work toward AI animation early on... mid '2022. Rather that sticking still with my 10 year old studio.
Now have the #1-#2 website on the subject of AI Animation. A decent audience and been able to pivot full time to the subject and dev pursuits.
It's lead to AI Consulting projects for some cool project names, plus I've rolled out a few courses... not the end goal.. but it keeps the lights on and helps fund the solo dev projects with those $M goals.
Various prototypes for AI use cases always bubbling along.. (I really... REALLY need to get at least one of those released soon).
Either way the dev time on these prototypes lead to a broad understanding of AWS computing, React, APIs etc... Which I think, combined with the focus on a specific area (professional AI animation) will remain useful.
okay what are the best AI bootcamps?
super inspiring guys, thank you a lot!
Thanks for your videos. I completely agree. I work on llm agents for internal apis in a traditional company and the first demo after few months kept some coworkers speechless. I completely can see how this will affect the future. I can see myself starting a company, but I don't see a viable business idea.
Just started and stared feeling more confident that word your gold mind✨✨
Now your audience will finally know that using AI and having a technical co-founder is very important! Thank you for the insides, guys
😂
World is changing, so let's find the right wave and rode it straight to the customers.
Building purpose-led AI solutions will differentiate the 'hype" builders and the true disruptors! Meet you at the top brother!🚀🚀
this was awesome, thank you!
This is not some hype that comes and go like some ppl say it is, this is probably the biggest revolution in human civilization.
By a tiny fraction of humans pushing it on the rest of everyone else who aren't ultimately doing it for the sake of human evolution, but for overtaking humans by ASI (ultimate goal of the AI revolutionaries). But they are confident of course that THEY will remain in control.
great video, student founders should value this
Ive learnt alot in the past year from Prof Ngs course specifically, but I dont have ideas to build and maybe lack the confidence :(,
I dont want to stop tho, Ill try building just for the sake of building
Thank you for all the insights. What would be the best advice you would give to someone who isn’t tech-savvy and wants to build a startup but doesn’t know what to focus on learning? I feel overwhelmed seeing how many coding languages are out there. Thanks guys :)
World's gonna change like never before and we are going to do it, see it and feel it.
4:27: 99+% of people are still clueless about bitcoin.
Are there any interesting companies at YC right now that don’t have ai as the main selling point of their product?
I'm 16 and I'm doing an AI automation business. Solopreneur right now. The problem I have is that I will probably want to scale, but almost no one has the necessary knowledge and skills. Training is hard. Any advice?
What specific AI tools or resources do people recommend using?
Who would you suggest as a creditable open source learning platform? Great Video - TY!
I really enjoy this video! thank you!
I'm a VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) developer at a small company, I want to start a startup in the comming 5 months and now I'm looking for co-founders, my previous startup (in generative AI space) got accepted into Microsoft for founders hub, if you are a technical, innovative or market person reply me here to discuss more. 😊
I believe we're at the mainframe stage for AI, and we'll get today's models or better running on local consumer hardware within 10ish years. Then we'll get ASI in the mainframe, and then some years after that, ASI will be on local consumer hardware. It's going to be wild.
Enjoyed it. Thank you
What’s regarded as a technical cofounder? Should they be knowledgeable as a product manager or systems architect or should they have a deep understanding of coding and building AI models? Especially true for coders that are being replaced by AI writing robust code.
They should be able to actually build the entire first mvp by themselves within 2 months. It’s not about high level knowledge
Likely within a decade "the technical co-founder" will be one of the next models that is an AGI system that is both agentic and autonomous and that will be smart enough to spook whoever takes it on. That's where we are ultimately headed. It is so entertaining and terrifying to watch the circular arguments about AI hype e.g., "it's just predicting the next word, it will never be able to reason" while those same people fully embrace the "go fast and break things" credo of silicone valley that is rushing toward developing AGI/ASI.
I always ask, "so which is it?"
ive started an ed company. i dont know how to code. do i need to know how to code? or can i just learn how to use no-code AI tools?
Thanks for the insights!
I don't have to imaging using the first web browsers. I had already been using the internet for years when they came around.
It's an apt comparison, though.
NINETY seconds in and I feel like I’m being pitched an AI product. Leveraging FOMO and all as well.
At this point YC’s channel is just part of their funnel, not even meant to educate anymore.
Well I can understand why you would make that argument, but I am genuinely curious let say it's a part of their funnel, then doesn't that mean they want more people to have this skill so that they can invest more. Now if a big VC is betting that more of such companies will be valuable, don't you think we should try to build that skill too?
So which part of what they said is false?
This is flawed argument. How does one contradict the other? Why is it so hard to believe that 'helping their marketing funnel' and 'educating people' can have major overlap? The fact that they have personal interest in promoting AI does not mean that promoting AI is bad
The rate of progress makes determining how to invest your time very challenging. If AGI is indeed 1-5 years out, how should engineers and entrepreneurs be spending their time? Piggybacking on the AI wave seems like it's just going to expedite the inevitable automation of :allthethings:, which I'm not sure yet is a good thing.
lol the comments make me laugh. I’ve watched numerous videos of Michael and Dalton cooling the fire on AI. This is one (if not the first) time that I’ve really heard them push its time to jump on the AI train. Good to see them finally shift their position and give us the heads up.
Browsers was free, models are not.
Would love to hear from Y combinator how folks can found companies that won’t get steamrolled by OpenAI. If they’re building AGI, how can you make something and not get steamrolled?
Evals.
The thing about YC is that it's not about innovation or creation but who it fundamentally helps out more. It's an incubator for Wallstreet and investment firms to strategically buy out the start-up or die. YC is a great company don't get me wrong, its core values are flawed and ethically wrong in terms of controlling who it helps.
My question is, why isn't YC a PBC if it's a sound business model ?
YC is a company that helps OTHER companies. They don't need profits
Good talk!
Is YC only considering AI ideas or startups for their winter cohorts?
Dalton & Michael, I am applying to YC winter batch, my startup falls in category of both B2B SaaS and Hard tech? Is there any guidance on which category to choose?
Excited Excited Exciteddddd !!!!
use the new powerful tool to equipt myself to sovle the real problems. new tech + real problems = new industry
where ?
I am B Pharm graduate and i want to Change career but i always make decisions in IT sector then suggest is it good or should go in other careers
If it's good then what's and where should I start in IT sector like full stack developer,app development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, etc
Please show me path whatever is
We will have true democracy because no single person will hold and be able to print a central currency. Currency will be defined by value of a company or person or group of persons working toward the same goal and capitalizing on them.
I just left everything including a company i bootstrapped to 2M $ ARR a month with profits(interior design executors), to hands of my father, and moved to chennai yesterday to found my AI company , we are building a AI dental crm first
I have 10 year exp in AR/VR game industry, can i learn AI now ? I want to start AI product company but i have no knowledge in AI, not sure if it makes sense to be the AI engineer in this case
100% agree!
wow those improving models are making life so much better. poverty, hunger, misinformation, crime, wars, homelessness - it's all gone!!!
oh wait - it's just marketers and scammers that benefit...
Any suggestions for good TH-cam channels / other sources to learn this stuff?
Stanford online
Matt Wolfe, Julia McCoy, Mo Gawdat, Matthew Berman
don't forget the base, guys - human labour
Physical Superintelligence ( Si ) is the future of robots
Thank you!
AI is making our lives so much easier.
Nailed it.
Lets make a difference between gen AI and AI.
The more I watch YC videos, the more it reminds me of a cult. Nothing personal. Just... strange.
why is that?
Transhumanists... but who cares? It's their (exponential) tech I care abt not their beliefs...
Yeah, I agree, but as someone in the middle of it building a new product, working through bugs and customer issues, the occasional message of reaffirmation is helpful to motivate powering though the muck of building a new company even if there's no new information in the video
Maybe you kinda need that mentality to build a new company!
You don't have an altar dedicated to Michael at home? Weird...
Can someone please answer what's the best place to learn about all this, back when i was in school people followed AndrewNG like a bible. Please suggest where i can build my technical expertise ?
The real breakthroughs in AI applications may not come from programmers, but from people in various industries who are constantly watching AI's progress and looking for ways to apply it in their fields. By teaming up with developers to create software and launch companies, these domain experts can lead the way. In fact, as AI evolves, programming itself may become obsolete, empowering anyone to build their own software. The next wave of successful founders will likely be industry experts who are proactive about using AI in their domains, rather than programmers.
Drop the relevant yt channels to learn from in the comments please , thanks!
At 8:28 are you perhaps referring to my TH-cam video of how transformers work?
There's a gap between knowing that mobile will be a huge thing and developing Waze, Uber, or Angry Birds. I know LLM's are improving, and Meta will probably release a free an omni voice-to-voice model like GPT-4o, but it's still difficult to know how to leverage the new technology. It's more complicated than buying a GPU and mining bitcoin.
Truly agree with this take
been non stop building AI tools and felt this way since July 2022
GPT-3 was super impressive.
Great!
8:36 like…what videos? This channel? Another channel? 8:20
I have a bussiness idea and i want to discuss with you help me by discuss it an idea isoa early stage
Thanks Michel.
Embrace AI (rightly so, miss me with the image bs) Or Risk Being Leap Frogged By Those Who Do
Ha I like the confidence.
Cool hype talk, was there any real advice here?
"There are no gatekeepers, there's only ambivalence, cynicism"
I feel that GenAI is much more fundamental from a CPA perspective. Yet, at the same time, accessible. It's doing to text what spreadsheets did to numbers. Before VisiCalc, numbers were static entities requiring specialist knowledge to manipulate. Spreadsheets transformed them into dynamic, manipulable tools that reshaped how businesses operate. Similarly, GenAI is turning text from fixed content into fluid, programmable material that anyone can shape and analyze. This isn't just another tech wave - it's a fundamental shift in how humans interact with information itself.
Good insight. As a fellow CPA, I wholeheartedly agree
I love these two fucking guys, keep the vids comin bitches
You guys are laughing a bit too much. Did someone lace your juice with shroomz 😂. Good info though. I’m in Kenya. I have a couple of ideas I wanna build but I’m having difficulty raising 100 dollars to just pay for tokens. Any wellwisher wanna give me a shot?
hahaha, wah, kenyans wanaombaomba huku 😂 😂
Meh, AI has some nice use-cases that we've been leveraging for over a decade, like Google Vision. It's not a 10T upgrade though. LLMs aren't really that great, and there's no goldmine here, only people selling shovels.
I think this is too rosy, you forgot to mention the pace at which things are moving in this sector. Within a year whatever you learnt is phased out by some Zero-shot LLM model, which is phased out in another year by some AI Agentic system. Unless you're really young, a super quick learner or you don't have any ego working for folks way younger than you, be careful 😂😂
I think there actually is hype about AI, but in different areas, statements like: all software developers will be replaced by AI, or AI will take over humans in near future.
Also, if a person has no innovative business idea and they just want to ride the AI wave to become a billionaire is an illusion. It is quite different from phenomena like Bitcoin, which I could just buy and wait. That was my penny + another penny! 😆
That’s simply the biggest revolution (maybe besides fire discovery)
To answer your question, AI is improving stepwise in shorter periods; this can continue with more use and adoption. Plus, we need energy to run. 😮
Interesting
Absolutely love that there are