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Founder FAQ: 40 AI startup founders on the current state of AI tech

What are the best uses for AI today? Where does it still fall short? Few people understand these things more deeply than the founders building companies around AI right now — so we asked them.

This latest episode of Founder FAQ was recorded at a recent meetup for YC founders working in AI. We had them share their insights on the state of AI — the good, the challenges, and the best practices. If you're thinking about building in this space, this one should give you a lot of context fast.

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1. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month (blog.kagi.com)
   1733 points by darthShadow | 930 comments


2. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000) (www.cs.cmu.edu)
   1662 points by isomorph | 500 comments


3. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor (twitter.com)
   1201 points by moyix | 589 comments


4. Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)
   1160 points by dvrp | 197 comments


5. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem (jenson.org)
   1137 points by kaftan-permans | 600 comments


6. Cisco Acquires Splunk (www.splunk.com)
   922 points by siddharthb_ | 501 comments


7. Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community (www.phoronix.com)
   922 points by WithinReason | 357 comments


8. My solopreneur story (news.tonydinh.com)
   820 points by alexzeitler | 611 comments


9. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser (adayinthelifeof.nl)
   813 points by jaytaph | 475 comments


10. We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT (openai.com)
    776 points by ladino | 574 comments