The Hallway Track
10 tracked signals on YC.
StarCloud raised $170M to build space data centers solving AI's terrestrial energy bottleneck
“we are very quickly running up on constraints on where we can build new energy projects terrestrially. And so by building them in space, we get access to this almost unlimited lowcost energy in the form of solar.”
Y Combinator is seeking founders to build offshore AI compute flotillas on the ocean
“It sounds crazy, but we think part of the answer may be to move compute offshore.”
Plummeting sensor costs make dense physical-world data collection feasible for AI models
“More real-world data enables precise modeling, and once you can model a system, you can control it.”
AI agents make personal software easy to build but deployment infrastructure hasn't caught up
“Small software should be as easy to share with your colleagues as a Google Doc.”
Y Combinator is actively seeking founders building AI adaptive tutors for children at consumer scale.
“AI can bring it to every child, and great tutors do more than just drill facts.”
PostHog pivots from analytics tool to AI-native 'self-driving software' that fixes products autonomously
“we decided it was fundamentally better to entirely solve someone's job for them rather than giving them an rough idea of what's important”
Encord is building the data layer for physical AI, which represents the next platform shift
“it's better to not do any of that and just to scale the the system. Just add more data, more compute into it.”
Applied Electrodynamics built a radar camera that images through walls in 3D using GPUs
“the whole GPU revolution allows you to process them "on the fly" and generate these images”
Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19 after MIT and a Quora gap year.
“from the outside in you have no idea how companies work. You have no idea what it looks like to actually build something.”
Hover Arrow raised $1.37B in letters of intent for rocket-speed cargo delivery.
“we signed commercial letters of intent worth $1.37 billion”