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ByteAsk: Your AI C++ engineer, and a swarm of them (opens ycombinator.com)
Hand it a C/C++/CUDA bug and get a tested pull request back, at what it claims is 68% lower cost.
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Vorflux 2.0: Autobots (opens ycombinator.com)
Always-on AI coworkers that live in Slack; 22 votes on YC Launches.
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Boxes.dev - Move your AI coding to the cloud (opens ycombinator.com)
Run Claude Code and Codex on parallel cloud machines from laptop, phone or terminal; 50 votes on YC Launches.
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Volaren – Your Personal Investing Agent (opens ycombinator.com)
Same as the top 1%, you can finally have your "money guy"
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Axiomat – Agents that cannot hallucinate (opens ycombinator.com)
Formally verified data queries
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Nodus Compute | Get more AI from the GPUs that already exist (opens ycombinator.com)
The AI buildout runs on debt. The fix isn't more GPUs. It's getting more AI out of the ones that already exist.
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ArchGen Labs | Building skyscrapers for semiconductor chips (opens ycombinator.com)
AI-powered chip design tools for the next generation of 3D semiconductors.
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Ordo Labs: The AI-native OS for regulated labs (opens ycombinator.com)
We help the labs behind your medicines deliver study results 10x faster.
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Telamont — Sentry for errors in construction documents (opens ycombinator.com)
AI that catches errors between construction drawings, specs and contracts
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Theseus Robotics: Humanoids for the Retail Aisle (opens ycombinator.com)
YC company building humanoids for in-store order picking and shelf replenishment.
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Cooking with Reducto’s CEO: Why PDFs Still Break AI — Adit Abraham (opens youtube.com)
Why do PDFs still break AI? Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham joins Allen Park on Latent Space Cooking to talk AI document parsing and make a steak sandwich with burrata, torched peaches, and chimichurri. From the YC pivot out of long-term memory to Reducto R1 and Deep Extract, Adit explains…
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Trepo: The agentic grocery shopper that knows what you have and need. (opens ycombinator.com)
Trepo is building agents that shop for you, starting with groceries.
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Proto: The product designer’s IDE (opens ycombinator.com)
A design tool with the accuracy of Cursor & creative freedom of Figma
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Organizely — A New AI-Native ERP for American Manufacturers 🇺🇸 (opens ycombinator.com)
An AI-native ERP that models factory operations, predicts bottlenecks and acts to lower production costs.
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Taan AI: The most controllable foundation music model (opens ycombinator.com)
Foundation music models that do what you tell them to, when you tell them to.
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Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (opens github.com)
Hey HN, this is Nathan and Nicholas from Rivet (https://rivet.dev) – a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model. Rather than running a heavyweight sandbox per agent, each agent gets a lightweight actor backed by S3.
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Hesper AI: AI agents that work every insurance claim end to end (opens ycombinator.com)
Every claim worked, not just processed. The full workup on every claim in minutes, with proof behind every output
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OpenLake: Fast inference for self improving models (opens ycombinator.com)
OpenLake lets companies deploy, train and serve models that keep improving.
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Verno: AI that edits and checks the engineering documents behind every industrial plant (opens ycombinator.com)
AI for how the physical world gets built
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Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor (opens news.ycombinator.com)
Kino bundles footage storage, a video editor and review links so teams and their agents can make videos together.
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Runtime: Robots that think in simulation (opens ycombinator.com)
A simulation-based robot policy that needs no fine-tuning or teleoperation
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Raven: The next phone, for the world of agents (opens ycombinator.com)
A phone rebuilt around agents instead of apps: more done, less time on screen.
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Sona8: Understand, improve, and automate workflows (opens ycombinator.com)
We turn what employees explain in interviews and show on screen or through a phone camera into workflow maps that AI agents can use as a context layer
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Punchcard in Excel: Verify agent work like a formula (opens ycombinator.com)
Every cell shows its reasoning, with one-click citations to cell and document references.
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Phone Harness: Let your agent tap, scroll, and type on your iPhone or Android (opens ycombinator.com)
Let your agent use your personal phone, or its own iPhone/Android in the cloud
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Micora: Rapidly deployed industrial micro-grids (opens ycombinator.com)
Solar + Battery systems set up with 1/100th of the labor anywhere in the world.
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OpenHack: Always on AI Security Engineer (opens ycombinator.com)
OpenHack finds, verifies, prioritizes and fixes vulnerabilities automatically.
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twentyfour26: Building Fully Autonomous Factories in America (opens ycombinator.com)
twentyfour26 is building autonomous factories in America, starting with on-demand CNC machining.
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△ Prism by Navier AI: Agents for hardware engineering (opens ycombinator.com)
Navier AI's Prism agents build CAD, run simulations and write engineering reports for hardware teams.
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Hundred: Automated inspection for precision hardware parts (opens ycombinator.com)
Hundred inspects precision hardware parts to catch sub-100μm visual defects before they reach the assembly line.
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Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise (opens news.ycombinator.com)
The Subvocal Company (YC F26) is building smart glasses that decode silently mouthed words into text, so people can talk to their computer without speaking out loud.
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Clean: Real-time company data for sales teams and their agents (opens ycombinator.com)
Clean (YC Fall 2026) gives sales teams and their agents real-time data on what just changed at each account.
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Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app (opens momentic.ai)
Momentic (YC W24) builds QA agents that plan, explore and bug-bash user flows in web, iOS and Android apps to catch bugs.
AnalysisOpinion
The $1B Company Fixing AI’s Software Bottleneck (opens youtube.com)
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.
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Letterpress-1: The world's first coding agent, harness, and IDE for growth engineering (opens ycombinator.com)
Letterpress-1 re-imagines every aspect of developer tooling for engineering growth.
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Superserve: Virtual machines for long-running agents (opens ycombinator.com)
Cloud VMs for running complex environments across many agent sessions
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Ryhla: Faster power grid connection for your project (opens ycombinator.com)
Ryhla (YC Fall 2026) builds data and models of the distribution grid to speed up grid connections for projects.
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens (opens techcrunch.com)
On Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders, Tan put a price on his use of AI agents.
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Rewbi - We build data centers 10x faster (opens ycombinator.com)
Rewbi (YC S24) deploys 1-10MW distributed data centers in existing industrial buildings with surplus power.
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Darwin Robotics: Robot technicians for AI infrastructure (opens ycombinator.com)
General-purpose robot technicians that assemble, commission, and maintain data centers.