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Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, Immaculate vibes | Lightcone Podcast

What's happening in startups right now and how can you get ahead of the curve? In this episode of the Lightcone podcast, we dive deep into the major trends we're seeing from the most recent batch of YC using data we've never shared publicly before. This is a glimpse into what might be the most exciting moment to be a startup founder ever. It's time to build. YC is accepting late applications for the Summer 24 batch: ycombinator.com/apply

42:21 minutes

2 days ago

Y Combinator

The Rabbit R1 is Here!

This week, Marques, Andrew, and David dig deep into the Rabbit R1 and AI hardware devices in general. But first, they discuss everything happening with Tesla and even the new YouTube homescreen layout. After giving their thoughts on the R1 they then do a round of quick news stories including emulators and the new electric G-Wagon. It's a fun one, enjoy! Links: Apple Event Announcement: https://bit.ly/3wbJkPm Tesla Recall: https://bit.ly/4dgv9ZI Tesla FSD Price Reduction: https://bit.ly/3QmcKRv ...

01:50 hours

6 days ago

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

When Should You Trust Your Gut? | Dalton & Michael Podcast

When you’re making important decisions as a founder — like what to build or how it should work — should you spend lots of time gathering input from others or just trust your gut? In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we talk more about this and how to know when you should spend time validating and when to just commit. **Apply to Y Combinator**: [https://yc.link/DandM-apply](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazBUa3JPTlBlVlIyREUtdWJEZVVkZ0E2RmJEQXxBQ3Jtc...

12:10 minutes

2 weeks ago

Y Combinator

The Inverted Goldilocks Zone - Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor

Gmail turns 20, AI PC definition, xz Utils backdoor - 20 years of Gmail - Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections - An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections - EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law - Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week - Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 - The New York Times - The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epi...

03:09 hours

2 months ago

This Week in Tech (Audio)

#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our sponsor, [the SuperDataScience podcast](https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast). You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at [https://lastweekin.ai/](https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at [contact@lastweekin.ai](ma...

01:36 hours

2 months ago

Last Week in AI

Curtis Yarvin on How to Build the Next NYT and Advice for Elon

Curtis Yarvin returns to Moment of Zen to talk media, regime change, censorship, and the future role of platforms like X and Reddit in reputation capital structures. If you're looking for an ERP platform, check out NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/zen — now through April 15th NetSuite is offering a one-of-a-kind flexible financing program. – SPONSORS: NETSUITE NetSuite provides financial software for all your business needs. More than 37,000 thousand companies have already upgraded to NetSuite, ga...

01:39 hours

2 months ago

"Moment of Zen"

Building AI Models Faster And Cheaper Than You Think | Lightcone Podcast

If you read articles about companies like OpenAI and Anthropic training foundation models, it would be natural to assume that if you don’t have a billion dollars or the resources of a large company, you can’t train your own foundational models. But the opposite is true. In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, we discuss the strategies to build a foundational model from scratch in less than 3 months with examples of YC companies doing just that. We also get an exclusive look at Open AI's Sora!

34:05 minutes

2 months ago

Y Combinator

Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas | Dalton & Michael Podcast

One trait that many great founders share is conviction. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll talk about finding confidence in what you're building, the dangers of inaccurate assumptions, and a question founders need to ask themselves before they start trying to sell to anyone else. **Apply to Y Combinator**: https://yc.link/DandM-apply **Work at a Startup**: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs

21:10 minutes

2 months ago

Y Combinator

Where Is The REAL Cerebral Valley?

In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners chart the evolution of San Francisco as the center of the startup world and how AI has brought everyone back to the city. They also talk about why YC chose to open our new HQ in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco and share their advice for new founders moving to the city for the first time.

33:26 minutes

2 months ago

Y Combinator

Antonio on Social Media, Journalism, and New Religions with Parker Thompson

In this conversation, Erik Torenberg sits down with Antonio Garcia Martinez, founder of Spindl and author of ‘Chaos Monkeys’, and Parker Thompson, partner at SAX Capital, TNT Ventures, and AngelList, to explore the influence of social media on society. They discuss media literacy and journalism, how politics change people's views of social media, and the rise of unique religious movements in social activism. This episode marks the first time Erik interviewed Antonio Garcia Martinez on Venture St...

01:05 hours

2 months ago

"Moment of Zen"

Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things)

Startups need to innovate to succeed. But not all innovation is made equal and reinventing some common best practices could actually hinder your company. In this episode, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the common innovation pitfalls founders should avoid so they can better focus on their product and their customers. **Apply to Y Combinator**: https://yc.link/DandM-apply **Work at a Startup**: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs

11:58 minutes

2 months ago

Y Combinator

EP55: Will Devin Take Our Jobs? Sora Interview, Claude Haiku, DeepSeek 7B, Figure1 & Robot Slavery

Show Notes: [https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/42-ep55](https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/42-ep55) SimTheory Claude Haiku Agent: [https://simtheory.ai/agent/795-claude-haiku-chatbot](https://simtheory.ai/agent/795-claude-haiku-chatbot) Sign up for daily AI news: [https://thisdayinai.com](https://thisdayinai.com) ==== CHAPTERS 00:00 - OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Sora Interview Train Wreck 16:47 - EU Passes the AI Act 24:25 - 1 year since Greg Brockman Unveiled GPT-4 + Cognition's Devin 52:34 -...

01:29 hours

2 months ago

This Day in AI Podcast

E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics

(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:55) Elon sues OpenAI: complex structure, tax issues, damages, past comparables (37:06) OpenAI's focus on AGI, different interpretations of AGI in tech (44:46) Groq update with Sunny Madra! (49:53) Have we hit peak Apple?: Losing regulatory battles, iPhone stagnation, Buffett starts trimming (1:06:25) TikTok ban: New proposed House bill would force ByteDance to divest TikTok, or ban the app outright (1:21:08) Bitcoin hits new all-time high: impact of ETFs and an upc...

01:34 hours

2 months ago

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

EP54: Claude 3, Gemini 1.5 1M Context Seinfeld Experiment, OpenAI's DramaAI and Inflection 2.5

Join SimTheory: https://simtheory.ai Try Claude Opus: https://simtheory.ai/agent/689-claude-opus-your-conversational-companion Subscribe to This Day in AI Daily News: https://thisdayinai.com Show Notes: https://thisdayinai.com/bookmarks/41-ep54 Seinfeld Trivia Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1crRzGE\_JbQCIR5dEW\_ORAq1QA9Yr8qquonZLILQRUpE/edit#gid=0 ==== This week we cover Anthropic's impressive Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet and Haiku releases and play with Google's Gemini 1.5 1M Co...

01:36 hours

2 months ago

This Day in AI Podcast

Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?

In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners discuss the launch of the Apple Vision Pro and the potential of this new platform for new startups. This is a deep dive into the technical innovations Apple has made for this product, how this compares to the launch of the iPhone, and advice for founders interested in building in this space.

27:58 minutes

3 months ago

Y Combinator

#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at [https://lastweekin.ai/](https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at [contact@lastweekin.ai](mailto:contact@lastweekin.ai) and/or [hello@gladstone.ai](mailto:hello@gladstone.ai) Timestamps + links: - (00:00:00) Intro / Banter - Tools & Apps - (00:02:16) [OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model](https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/...

01:45 hours

3 months ago

Last Week in AI

E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more

(0:00) Sacks Tequila Tasting! (1:19) Nvidia's market cap surpasses Google, ARM's stock rips, Masa's big comeback (15:36) Mind-blowing Sora demos: breaking down OpenAI's new text-to-video model (51:24) The risks of companies issuing stock option loans (1:04:57) Biden's cognitive decline, should the Democrats find a replacement? Plus, third party viability (1:31:46) Takeaways from Tucker's Putin interview Follow the besties: [https://twitter.com/chamath](https://twitter.com/chamath) [https...

01:43 hours

3 months ago

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler Capital

Magnus Grimeland is the CEO and founder of Antler Capital, the world’s largest day zero investor. Antler’s pre-seed strategy canvasses 27 countries, 1,000 portfolio companies, 8,000+ founders, and over 120,000 annual applications for 2,000 spots in its residency programs. Magnus founded Antler in 2017 after serving as the co-founder of Zalora, a tech-enable fashion brand in Asia. Our conversation covers Magnus’ journey from growing up in rural Norway to developing a global startup platform, cha...

01:07 hours

3 months ago

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?

Within the world of startups, you'll find lots of discourse online about the experiences of founders bootstrapping their startups versus the founders who have raised venture capital to fund their companies. Is one better than the other? Truth is, it may not be so black and white. Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the virtues and struggles of both paths. **Apply to Y Combinator**: https://yc.link/DandM-apply **Work at a Startup**: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs

14:04 minutes

3 months ago

Y Combinator

#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks

Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at [https://lastweekin.ai/](https://lastweekin.ai/) Email us your questions and feedback at [contact@lastweekin.ai](mailto:contact@lastweekin.ai) and/or [hello@gladstone.ai](mailto:hello@gladstone.ai) Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models" Timestamps + links: - (00:00:00) Intro / Banter - Tools & Apps - (00:02:06) [...

01:37 hours

3 months ago

Last Week in AI

The Truth About Building AI Startups Today

In the first episode of the Lightcone Podcast, YC Group Partners dig into everything they have learned working with the top founders building AI startups today. They share the ideas that are working particularly well, mistakes to avoid, and take a look at the competitive landscape among the current AI giants.

32:26 minutes

3 months ago

Y Combinator

3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON

_“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, then we’re going to get what we’ve got—and what we got ain’t working.”_ ICON Co-founder/CEO and proud Texan Jason Ballard believes that a radically different approach to construction holds the key to creating affordable housing and solving homelessness for the entire globe. This week on _How I Built This Lab,_ Jason’s venturesome path to inventing advanced technology that prints disaster-resilient homes from concrete—at a fraction of the traditional ti...

42:05 minutes

4 months ago

How I Built This with Guy Raz

#31: Fintech Struggles, Netflix Rises and 'Big' is Winning

From Netflix to the NFL, the incumbents are having quite a moment. Plus, crypto's new energy and the gang's fiercely different views on.... peptides. \-\-\- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moreorlesspod/message

01:01 hours

4 months ago

More or Less

Mediapocalypse Now + a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto + HatGPT

Layoffs are hitting newsrooms and publishers again, as tech platforms, ad markets and artificial intelligence reshape the internet. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton have ideas for solutions. Then, one of the most influential investors in crypto companies lays out where the industry went wrong, and why he still thinks blockchains are the future. And finally, a round of HatGPT with the week’s tech headlines, including a spicy LinkedIn post and an A.I. test that disturbs Kevin and Casey’s sense of real...

01:15 hours

4 months ago

Hard Fork

Sam Altman's Secret Quest to Build AI Chip Plants

Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manufacturing capacity. Plus ElevenLabs becomes AI's latest unicorn. Interested in the EDU Beta? Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtub...

18:51 minutes

4 months ago

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