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Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI
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The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/1/26 | ![]() Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI✨ | AIrecursive reasoning+3 | Francois Chaubard | Y CombinatorARC Prize+2 | — | recursive AILLMs+3 | — | 37m 52s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis✨ | AGIDeepMind+3 | Demis Hassabis | DeepMindGoogle DeepMind+2 | — | AGIDeepMind+5 | — | 40m 56s | |
| 4/25/26 | ![]() The $9B Startup That Wants to Create a Billion New Developers✨ | no-code app developmentsoftware creation+3 | Amjad Masad | ReplitY Combinator+1 | — | Replitno-code+5 | — | 39m 11s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() The Playbook For Building An AI Native Company✨ | AI-native companiesproductivity+3 | Diana Hu | Y Combinator | — | AIcompany building+5 | — | 10m 27s | |
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Stripe Head of Design Katie Dill Breaks Down Their New Website✨ | website redesigndesign tools+3 | Katie Dill | StripeY Combinator | — | Stripewebsite redesign+4 | — | 43m 36s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here✨ | roboticsAI+4 | Quan Vuong | Physical IntelligenceY Combinator | — | roboticsfoundation model+3 | — | 49m 26s | |
| 4/6/26 | ![]() This Startup Wants To Catch Cancer Before It Spreads✨ | biotechcancer detection+3 | David TsaoOguzhan Atay | BillionToOneY Combinator | America | BillionToOnecancer detection+3 | — | 20m 49s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() This Startup Secretly Detects Fraud For Fortune 500s✨ | fraud detectionAI agents+4 | Karine Mellata | VarianceGoFundMe+1 | — | fraud detectionAI+6 | — | 31m 23s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI✨ | Artificial General IntelligenceDeep Learning+4 | François Chollet | Y CombinatorARC+3 | — | AGIdeep learning+8 | — | 57m 23s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Inside The Startup Reinventing America’s Trillion Dollar Chemical Industry✨ | chemical manufacturingbiotechnology+4 | Gaurab ChakrabartiSean Hunt | SolugenY Combinator | Houston | chemical industryenzymatic production+5 | — | 13m 07s | |
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| 3/16/26 | ![]() Building A Global AI Startup From India✨ | AI startupsoftware development+3 | Mukund JhaMadhav Jha | EmergentY Combinator | India | AIEmergent+6 | — | 39m 32s | |
| 3/9/26 | ![]() The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Science's Max Hodak✨ | brain-computer interfacestechnology+3 | Max Hodak | NeuralinkScience | — | brain-computer interfacesNeuralink+3 | — | 53m 20s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() How To Avoid AI Design Slop | As no-code design tools become more common, so do the pitfalls. You know what they look like - the purple gradients, annoying hover effects, sections that fade as you scroll. So how do you avoid a site that feels vibe coded while still taking advantage of these new tools? In this episode of Design Review, YC’s Aaron Epstein is joined by Visiting Partner Raphael Schaad, the founder and designer of Cron (now Notion Calendar). Together they’ll review user submitted sites with an eye for how to leverage these tools and avoid the common vibe coding mistakes. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | ![]() The Fastest Path To Super Intelligence | Poetiq is a new startup founded by former DeepMind researchers that recently achieved a major jump on the ARC-AGI and Humanity's Last Exam benchmark by layering a recursive self-improvement system on top of existing models. In this episode of Lightcone, Poetiq's Founder & CEO Ian Fischer joined us to discuss how small teams can build “reasoning harnesses” that outperform base models, what that means for startups and why automating prompt engineering may be one of the most powerful levers in AI today.Chapters:00:00 – Intro00:40 – What Is Poetiq?01:07 – Recursive Self-Improvement Explained02:07 – The Fine-Tuning Trap02:59 – “Stilts” for LLMs03:14 – Recursive Self-Improvement vs. Fine-Tuning05:05 – Taking the Top Spot on ARC-AGI06:37 – Beating Claude on Humanity’s Last Exam08:40 – How the Meta-System Works10:26 – Beyond RL: A New S-Curve11:32 – Automating Prompt Engineering13:37 – From 5% to 95% Performance14:50 – Early Access & Putting Your Agent on Stilts16:17 – From YC Founder to DeepMind Researcher18:29 – Advice for Engineers in the AI EraApply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/applyWork at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs | — | ||||||
| 2/21/26 | ![]() The AI Agent Economy Is Here | With the takeoff of OpenClaw and MoltBook, a new agent-driven economy is taking shape.In this episode of the Lightcone, we took a look at the explosive growth of AI dev tools and whether the time has come for builders to make something agents want. | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny | A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of the AI era. | — | ||||||
| 2/14/26 | ![]() The New Way To Build A Startup | In the AI era, startups aren't winning by hiring faster — they're winning by automating as many internal functions as possible. In this episode of Main Function, Garry breaks down how tiny teams are beating companies 20x their size by building automations into every workflow, from engineering to ops to customer support. | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | ![]() OpenClaw And The Future Of Personal AI Agents | You’ve probably already heard all about OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot). The viral sensation is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own device, connects with messaging apps you already use, and goes beyond chat to actually execute tasks like managing your email, calendars, files, workflows, and more. Now meet the man behind it. YC’s Raphael Schaad sat down with Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, to discuss the “aha” moment behind the viral personal AI agent, why local-first agents could replace many of today’s apps, and how personal agents will reshape the future of software.Chapters:00:00 – OpenClaw takes over the internet00:44 – Life after going viral01:28 – Why OpenClaw took off, what sets it apart02:56 – Bots talking to bots (and hiring humans)04:11 – From “God AI” to swarm intelligence05:07 – Peter’s original “aha” moment06:38 – Rebuilding the agent as a conversation07:38 – The moment it exceeded expectations10:21 – Are apps going to disappear?12:31 – Memory, data silos, and ownership14:39 – The privacy reality of personal agents15:05 – Letting the bot loose in public Discord16:55 – Giving an agent a personality18:19 – Contrarian building philosophy20:09 – CLIs vs MCPs21:28 – Building for humans first21:46 – The road aheadApply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/applyWork at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs | — | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | ![]() We're All Addicted To Claude Code | Wondering why your maker-turned-manager suddenly seems distracted in meetings? Maybe they're addicted to coding agents! In this episode of Lightcone, Calvin French-Owen — a co-founder of Segment and former engineer on OpenAI's Codex team — joins us to talk about why coding agents suddenly feel so powerful, the differences between Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, and what the future of work will look like. | — | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | ![]() How To Get Your First Customers | When you're starting out, it isn’t enough to just build a minimum viable product. You also need a minimum evolvable product - one that can adapt to the needs of those critical early customers. In this episode of Main Function, YC General Partner Ankit Gupta offers an update to the classic MVP playbook. He’ll outline strategies for getting your first customers, the power of adaptability and how feedback from early users will ultimately shape the future of your product and your company.Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/applyWork at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobsChapters:00:00 – The Minimum Evolvable Product00:46 – Finding the First Believers01:29 – Counterintuitive Rules To Get Early Users02:10 – Learn Fast, Don’t Fear Churn02:52 – How Early Users Shape the Market You Enter04:22 – Tesla Case Study05:14 – How To Build To Evolve | — | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | ![]() Inside The Startup Building Reusable Rockets | Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again and again. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman to find out why they chose to take on one of the hardest problems in rocket science, how an obsession with efficiency gives them an edge, and what full reusability could unlock for the future of spaceflight.Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/applyWork at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs | — | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | ![]() What Surprised Us Most In 2025 | 2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of AI startups may be just getting started. | — | ||||||
| 12/17/25 | ![]() How Intelligent Is AI, Really? | ARC-AGI is redefining how to measure progress on the path to AGI - focusing on reasoning, generalization, and adaptability instead of memorization or scale.During this month's NeurIPS 2025 conference, YC's Diana Hu sat down with ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt to find out why most AI benchmarks fail, how ARC-AGI reveals the limits of today’s models, and why measuring intelligence may be harder than building it. | — | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ![]() The End of the Designer–Engineer Divide | Head of Design Ryo Lu helped transform Cursor from a feature-layer on top of VS Code into one of the world's leading AI code editors.He joins YC's Aaron Epstein on Design Review to talk about the path that brought him to Cursor, how rapid prototyping reshaped the core product and how he's breaking down the barriers that once separated designers and coders. | — | ||||||
| 12/10/25 | ![]() From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn | In just a few years, James Hawkins took PostHog from an idea hacked together right before YC's W20 deadline to a unicorn powering product analytics for thousands of teams.He joins YC's Brad Flora to talk about surviving six months of "pivot hell," why open-source analytics was the breakthrough, and how PostHog grew from fighting for its first users to launching full product lines—plus what he's learned about momentum, staying close to customers, and using transparency and humor to build a company that stands out. | — | ||||||
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