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Y Combinator Startup Podcast

by Y Combinator

Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

01.05.2026 • 00:37:52

A 7-million parameter model outperforming models a thousand times its size on tasks like ARC Prize. That's what recursive reasoning unlocks.In this ep...

How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis

29.04.2026 • 00:40:56

Demis Hassabis has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD...

The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers

25.04.2026 • 00:39:11

Replit is the leading no-code app builder for consumers and enterprise, letting anyone with an idea build real, deployed software using natural langua...

The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company

24.04.2026 • 00:10:27

AI isn't just making teams more productive. It's changing how companies should be built. In this episode of Startup School, YC Partner Diana Hu expla...

Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website

22.04.2026 • 00:43:36

Even the most successful websites eventually need a redesign. Take Stripe for example. After six years with the same homepage, they recently unveiled ...

The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here

16.04.2026 • 00:49:26

Physical Intelligence is building a foundation model that can control any robot to do any task — what the team describes as the GPT-1 moment for robot...

This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads

06.04.2026 • 00:20:49

1 in 11 babies born in America this year will be screened by a genetic test that didn't exist a decade ago.Biotech startup BillionToOne turned a simpl...

This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s

31.03.2026 • 00:31:23

In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Karine Mellata, co-founder of Variance (W23), who is coming out of s...

How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

27.03.2026 • 00:57:23

François Chollet has spent years asking a different question than most of the AI world. Instead of scaling what already works, he’s trying to understa...

Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry

20.03.2026 • 00:13:07

Solugen is reinventing the trillion-dollar chemical manufacturing industry by combining biology and chemistry in a new way. In this episode of Hard Te...