LoginThe 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinatorβs latest Demo Day, according to VCs
13 September 2026 at 16:28
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
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Y Combinatorβs Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to βdistillβ frontier models, too
11 September 2026 at 16:59
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that arenβt Chinese.
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinatorβs fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
1 September 2026 at 18:08
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
