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A seed-stage YC startup, Wafer AI, is competing in the inference speed race, with Databricks achieving 392 token/s on GLM-5.2, topping Artificial Analysis.

Bryant Chou, co-founder of Webflow, promotes a roast event for YC Partners' original sites while showcasing the capabilities of his new AI-powered website and marketing platform, ploy.

Y Combinator's 2026 Spring Demo Day is here, with 32 companies already disclosing revenue. Tasklet leads with $5M ARR, while Gojiberry AI, Kinro, and Plena Health also show strong performance, demonstrating an unprecedented revenue scale.

a16z partner Olivia Moore shared 6 signals after intensive YC company meetings, believing that AI is rewriting the rules of business.

Someone analyzed the 196 startups from YC's 2026 spring batch and found that 95% use AI, 85% are AI-native, and the real keyword is agents rather than AI.

YC alumni demo day is underway with a full house attending.

Garry Tan introduces GBrain, an open-source AI agent memory layer that provides synthesis, graph traversal, and gap analysis for coding agents, demonstrating significant improvement over traditional retrieval methods.

YC believes the biggest companies of the next decade will be service companies rebuilt with AI (e.g., insurance, law firms, accounting firms), and points out that unstable delivery quality is more deadly than having no customers.

Tenet Industries, backed by Y Combinator, is developing low-cost, mass-producible strike drones as an alternative to expensive defense systems built by traditional primes.

PrimalNick thanks Y Combinator and mentors for supporting his return, while YC promotes DraftedAI, an AI tool that generates custom home designs from simple inputs.

YC is building a counter-drone ecosystem with startups like Perseus Defense, 9Mothers, surtrdefense, and Milliray, focusing on guided missiles, AI machine guns, sensor fusion, and drone detection.

A tweet analyzing how Garry Tan's gstack repo serves as a masterclass in storytelling, as taught by Y Combinator.

Garry Tan and Diana Hu shared how YC's SAFE standardizes seed-stage financing, along with practical experience on how small teams achieve exponential growth in the AI era through the "software factory" concept and the Gstack tool, during a Stanford CS153 class.

A founder shares a six-step outbound sales playbook used by YC batch startups hitting $1M+ ARR, emphasizing LinkedIn automation and posting frequency.

Ardent is a YC-backed startup that provides Postgres database sandboxes in seconds with zero migration, allowing coding agents to test code on production-like data without risk.

GBrain v0.31.1 introduces a major architectural upgrade, utilizing the MCP protocol to enable a central brain for unified management, resolving issues with multi-device synchronization and fragmented memory. Developed personally by YC CEO Garry Tan, the tool highlights the future value of local personal intelligent infrastructure.