🛰️ From Tiny Apartment to $1B Satellite Company

This Week at YC

November 3rd, 2024

 The Latest

The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ

Earlier this month, OpenAI raised the largest venture round ever at $6.6 billion. The company’s CFO says AI is now at the point where orders of magnitude matter. The Lightcone hosts consider what a world with ultra intelligent models would look like, and what potential unlocks could be made possible.

You Don’t Have To Be A Billionaire To Launch Satellites

There’s a misconception that you need a lot of money to start building a hard tech company. But that’s not always the case— take Astranis for example. They got their start building a small prototype in their tiny apartment. Today they're valued at over $1 billion, and are now gearing up to launch 4 new satellites on a dedicated Falcon 9 rocket.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Beyond Aero Raises $20 Million for Its Hydrogen-Electric Private Jets
WSJ
How Persana AI Plans To Help Sales Teams Get Back To What They do Best
Forbes
AstroForge Picks Up First Commercial Deep Space License
Payload
CTGT aims to make AI models safer
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
An agent that is triggered by alerts and surfaces relevant information that helps you troubleshoot
F2024
Track, manage and reduce your SaaS spend in a single place.
S2022
Turn unstructured documents into clean business data - give it a try with your documents now!
S2024
Forerunner collaborates with engineers to accelerate development of defense tech, satellites, and rockets.
F2024
Accelerate your Go-To-Market with a team of AI Agents.
F2024
Using AI to create pedestrian-friendly, efficient cities.
F2024
Approval queues, escalations, and human oversight for every automated process.
F2024
AI and analytics teams use Regatta to instantly access massive S3 data sets, without waiting for data transfer or worrying about capacity.
F2024
Ceejay uses AI to lighten the mental load of managing your inbox and calendar.
S2024
AI interviewer that enables companies to hire top engineers faster.
F2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. ChatGPT Search (openai.com)
    1457 points by marban | 1227 comments

  2. Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone (ssoready.com)
    1124 points by noleary | 448 comments

  3. Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI (www.businessinsider.com)
    606 points by S0y | 976 comments

  4. Make It Yourself (makeityourself.org)
    599 points by deivid | 85 comments

  5. A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write (research.google)
    590 points by mfiguiere | 179 comments

  6. Using an 8K TV as a Monitor (daniel.lawrence.lu)
    549 points by ingve | 532 comments

  7. How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends (delroth.net)
    533 points by scd31 | 116 comments

  8. Notepad++ is 21 years old (learnhub.top)
    524 points by thunderbong | 234 comments

  9. How I write code using Cursor (www.arguingwithalgorithms.com)
    478 points by tomyedwab | 407 comments

  10. Buy payphones and retire (computer.rip)
    472 points by cratermoon | 350 comments

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