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Going In Deep On Data | YC Paper Club

20.08.2026
Published: 20.08.2026 Category: Startups and entrepreneurship

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This week's YC Paper Club is focused on data. Three domain experts give talks to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 - Francois Chaubard: Why a whole night about data? 9:51 - Vincent Sunn Chen: The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents 28:44 - Volo Kuleshov: Inception: Diffusion Language Models for Production 40:26 - Shayne Longpre: ATLAS: Practical Scaling Laws for Multilingual Models

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YC Paper Club examines challenges in training data, benchmarking, and multilingual pre-training through talks by three domain experts. Vincent Sunn Chen discusses benchmarking agents, while Volo Kuleshov presents diffusion language models for production. Shayne Longpre covers practical scaling laws for multilingual models through ATLAS.

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