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The New Full-Stack Designer

In this episode of Design Review, Marvin Schwaibold, who leads the product design studio at Shopify, joins YC's Aaron Ep

Why Inference Matters 12x More Than Training | YC Paper Club

This week’s Paper Club is all about inference. For every FLOP spent training a model, roughly six go to serving…

This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos

There’s a misconception that a successful launch video needs to cost tens of thousands of dollars and feel like a…

How To Stand Out In A World Of AI Designs

Magic Patterns (W23) is one of the fastest-growing design tools in AI, helping product teams turn ideas into interactive

AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

This week’s Paper Club is all about AI safety - not the headlines, the science. AI safety has been a…

How Jeetu Patel Runs Cisco Like the World’s Largest Startup

Cisco is building AI infrastructure, from networking GPU clusters to securing agents, with its hyperscaler AI business r

AI safety starts with limits, not promises

AI safety starts with clear limits. Learn how founders can define permissions, test failures and keep human control as AI…

AI productivity: Give Every Saved Hour a Job

AI productivity creates room to test better ideas. Learn how founders can turn saved time into customer value, with lessons…

Column: What a small firm can learn from YC's AI playbook

Y Combinator built AI into the way it operates instead of adding it as a feature. A small firm can…

Open models: protect your startup’s freedom to switch

Open models can cut AI costs, but startups need a practical way to switch. Learn how to keep customer knowledge…