243 founders presented their new companies at the 39th Y Combinator Demo Day last week. Congratulations to the entire S24 batch! Core themes included AI agents, voice AI agents, AI copoilots, and AI devtools. We've summarized our key takeaways in this blog post.
Selected quotes included:
“Copilot and Cursor are missing the point. Very soon, AI will act more like senior architects rather than junior developers.” CodeViz
“AI models have gotten so large that it can take 40 seconds just to load one.” Outerport
“The best sales reps aren't just great at selling, they are also elite content creators.” Mica AI
“While there's been a ton of hype surrounding Sora-like video, we're focused on where the majority of enterprise value lies: vector graphics.” Cracked
“Current methods such as fine tuning and prompt engineering are falling short. Instead, we steer models by interpreting the insides.” dmodel
“We have the #1, #2, #4, #5, and #6 most downloaded Llama-3 models after Meta.” Unsloth AI
“DSPy has 17,000 Github stars, but it's hard to use outside of academia.” Zenbase AI
“All media companies need to offer their own Perplexity-like experiences. Gemini and Perplexity are the imperial forces. We are arming the rebels.” Capitol AI
“Our weather foundation model predicted the path of Hurricane Beryl three days before the U.S. weather agencies.” Silurian
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