Context: OpenLake lets companies deploy, train and serve models that keep improving.
From YC Launches: OpenLake lets companies deploy, train, and serve models that keep improving.
Blacksmith (YC W24) builds a faster cloud for continuous integration, betting that testing and validation become the bottleneck as AI coding tools generate more code.
A marketplace for AI inference that promises better pricing, latency and capacity.
Critical equipment, without the multi-year wait.
Hopper trains open-weight models on production traces, then serves and improves them against live traffic.
This week’s Paper Club is all about inference. For every FLOP spent training a model, roughly six go to serving it each year — and getting that part right has produced over $220 billion in market cap in the last decade. But inference is much more than calling model.forward.
Open-models in the EU, private by default, works with the SDKs and agents you already use.
