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How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by bix6 »

hshshshshsh wrote: post #16

Is it just me or anyone else fed up with the startup community. I cannot find anyone who actually cares about values and have backbone. The stories I grew up with of Wozniak, Jobs, Larry and the hacker community does not resemble them anymore. Everyone I know who raised money is a moron or narcissist. YC has became like a resume builder. And the genuine hackers I know of are wasting life away working on pointless pro…

Big money has sucked the life out of it. It’s just a returns game, there’s less care for changing the world.

I do know many funds and people working to build community and startups that actually help people but it’s an uphill battle because it’s not as sexy and the returns aren’t as immediate.

Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by atonse »

em-bee wrote: post #48
rappatic wrote: post #38

> Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch 154 are AI startups. The author calculates this by searching for the term "AI" in the name and description of each startup's YC page. But presence of the term "AI" doesn't make a startup an "AI startup," so to speak. For example, I picked one startup at random, Topological, which is "developing physics-based founda…

i disagree. if your product or business model are tied to the use of AI so much that you put AI in your description, then you are an AI company.

By that metric, every single software company is now an AI company.

I can't think of a SINGLE company (except ours maybe, only because we haven't updated our website yet, not because we don't want to) that doesn't vomit AI terms _everywhere_ in their product messaging.

I don't know whether consumers/buyers are demanding that, or what. But it seems everywhere and in every discipline. It's in research grant applications, it's in legal tech, everywhere.

AI is the new "we use the internet" - it will just get taken for granted.

Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by the__alchemist »

Hilift wrote: post #60

I'm predicting there will be a startup to focus on large scale forensic identification of archived samples of various things. Particularly items that may have been important enough to save in a freezer for 70 or 80 years. The refinement and availability of devices to measure microscopic amounts, and AI to process and sift through mundane results. From my experience with science, laboratory procedures before the 1980'…

BSL-5 is a thing? I think BSL-4 is exclusively hemorrhagic fevers.

Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by egui »

rappatic wrote: post #38

> Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch 154 are AI startups. The author calculates this by searching for the term "AI" in the name and description of each startup's YC page. But presence of the term "AI" doesn't make a startup an "AI startup," so to speak. For example, I picked one startup at random, Topological, which is "developing physics-based founda…

Topological doesn't just have "AI" in the description, they are tagged with the "AI" tag, and for good reason, they are developing machine learning models (which is what they mean by "foundation model" in the text you quoted).

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Post by htrp »

jsheard wrote: post #24
cs702 wrote: post #8

Bubble or not, AI is eating everything , not just YC. In particular, I've noticed the topic of AI is eating up corporate meetings, turning them into a kind of human slop.

According to The Information (which is hard-paywalled unfortunately) venture capital as a whole is set to run out of money in 18 months if things continue at the current pace. AI companies had better turn profitable sharpish.

article link ?

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Post by TuringNYC »

rappatic wrote: post #38

> Going through YC’s startup directory reveals that of the 170 startups in the most recent summer batch 154 are AI startups. The author calculates this by searching for the term "AI" in the name and description of each startup's YC page. But presence of the term "AI" doesn't make a startup an "AI startup," so to speak. For example, I picked one startup at random, Topological, which is "developing physics-based founda…

Sort of like how so many people having nothing to do with "AI/ML" on Linkedin put "AI/ML" in their Headline. I always wondered if that even works, do people get found/recruited/hired more for having that?

Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by SoftTalker »

schlauerfox wrote: post #26
tipiirai wrote: post #17

90% (154/170) of the latest HN summer batch are AI startups. I was expecting a lot, but not this much.

Or they're including AI as a buzzword in whatever they were already doing, and not exactly ignoring a new tool, but might be overselling how useful AI is to their thing?

Just like every existing SaaS and Enterprise platform is. It's just a new checkbox that you must have.

Re: How the AI bubble ate Y Combinator

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Post by the__alchemist »

Mistletoe wrote: post #25

AI ate HN also. It’s ridiculous how many articles are about AI now. Are we truly out of any new ideas? Can we not talk about something else? I kind of like AI but it’s a tool, I don’t talk about my screwdriver constantly.

It is your duty to read HN new, and upvote articles you find interesting, or that you think others might find interesting. You can bias towards non-LLM ones.
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