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December 8th, 2024

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Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use Is A Game Changer

The age of AI agents is here. Models can read, see, talk, and now, even use a computer— all by themselves. One of the first out of the gates is Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use. In this episode of YC Decoded, Garry dives into how it works, what it can do, and how it may change AI forever.

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Do hard things early. Your 20s can be the most important decade of your life and a great opportunity to take risks and invest in yourself. Dalton and Michael look at the common traits they've found among successful founders, for a 20s well spent.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
‘Industrial Copilot’ Tractian Raises Another $120 Million
Forbes
Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate
TechCrunch
Resend raises $18M Series A to build the future of communication
Resend
HappyRobot raises $15.6M Series A to deploy AI agents for the freight industry
HappyRobot
Vooma grabs $16.6M in funding as brokers prepare for market swing
FreightWaves

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Mechanical Engineers spend too much time making engineering drawings. Fabricate does it for them.
F2024
Medicare sales agents sell policies faster while avoiding compliance dings.
F2024
We provide specialized human operators for agent edge cases, ensuring 100% reliability while generating training data.
F2024
Law firm partners can scale their book of businesses with Pearson
F2024
Open-source RAG that intelligently adapts to your use case, data, and queries
F2024
Helping fintechs increase fraud ops capacity, improve accuracy, and resolve cases 80x faster.
W2023
Shipping assembled AI robots for builders of Silicon Valley!
F2024
Surfacing deep insights from complex analyses in M&A due-diligence.
F2024
Smart inventory management with AI
F2024
API-accessible computer environments purpose-built for AI agents.
F2024
A replacement to standard LLMs for coding tasks - eliminate hallucinations with a marketplace of expert LLMs trained on hundreds of technical topics.
F2024
A new kind of ERP system for factories.                        
F2024
We automate administrative tasks so physical therapists can focus on patient care
F2024
Simulated conversations to scale healthcare training and evaluation.
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. IMG_0001 (walzr.com)
    1817 points by walz | 285 comments

  2. Every V4 UUID (everyuuid.com)
    1346 points by LorenDB | 351 comments

  3. Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model (deepmind.google)
    1226 points by meetpateltech | 406 comments

  4. My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback (www.armaansahni.com)
    1216 points by veesahni | 475 comments

  5. Egoless Engineering (egoless.engineering)
    848 points by mcfunley | 287 comments

  6. The correct amount of ads is zero (manuelmoreale.com)
    828 points by surprisetalk | 555 comments

  7. The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding (addyo.substack.com)
    608 points by mooreds | 419 comments

  8. Facebook's Little Red Book (www.map.cv)
    533 points by heshiebee | 282 comments

  9. Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring (diataxis.fr)
    502 points by OuterVale | 110 comments

  10. World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image (www.worldlabs.ai)
    486 points by dmarcos | 135 comments
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