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October 27th, 2024

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o1’s Chain of Thought, Explained

OpenAI’s o1 is part of an entirely new class of models designed to reason or “think through” complex problems— and it's already making huge leaps in domains like math and coding. For the very first episode of YC Decoded, we took a look inside.

Starting A Company? Key Terms You Should Know

Burn rate, MVP, TAM — if you’re interested in tech and startups, you probably hear terms like these regularly. But what do they really mean? Group Partner Dalton Caldwell breaks down some of the most common terminology that you’ll come across in startups.

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Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Zip secures $190 million in landmark Series D funding
Zip (S20)
Tennr raises $37M to automate healthcare document processing
Forbes
YC is coming to Georgia Tech!
Join us for office hours and talks with the founders of Greptile

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Superb AI Raises Series C From Korea’s Doosan And Hyundai
Forbes
Pharos brings AI to hospital quality reporting
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Revyl - Proactive observability
Automatically catch and triage bugs before they reach production.
F2024
Dexter: The no-code process automation tool for operations
Enabling ops teams to build reliable workflows without relying on engineering.
F2024
BeerMe - A fun, global alternative to Venmo built on USDC
BeerMe is a community payments platform that makes sending money fun and personal.
F2024
Crustdata: Live Company and People Data via APIs
Enrich, search, or watch any person or company in real-time
F2024
Protegee: The payments API for AI agents
Enable your AI voice agent to complete transactions end-to-end.
F2024
Vocera - Testing & Evaluation for AI Voice Agents
Launch reliable voice agents in minutes not weeks.
F2024
Zuni - Smarter email for founders
An intelligent email app that acts like a human assistant
S2024
Autotab: AI agents reliable enough to do real work
Not a chatbot: Autotab handles repetitive tasks end to end using a keyboard and mouse, with human-level reliability.
S2023
Pulse STUDIO Vision API: Production-Grade Unstructured Document Extraction
An API + playground for production-grade unstructured document extraction, turning complex information into LLM-ready inputs. No training required.
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (www.anthropic.com)
    1447 points by weirdcat | 728 comments

  2. First images from Euclid are in (dlmultimedia.esa.int)
    1408 points by mooreds | 395 comments

  3. We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines (www.ifixit.com)
    1069 points by LorenDB | 283 comments

  4. Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted (www.bryanbraun.com)
    866 points by bryanbraun | 173 comments

  5. Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan (www.quantamagazine.org)
    821 points by philiplu | 413 comments

  6. Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate (play2048.co)
    642 points by terabytest | 206 comments

  7. Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort (www.bbc.com)
    634 points by thunderbong | 73 comments

  8. Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week (simonwillison.net)
    624 points by recvonline | 464 comments

  9. AWS data center latencies, visualized (benjdd.com)
    513 points by orliesaurus | 207 comments

  10. Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint (ai.meta.com)
    494 points by egnehots | 118 comments

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