One of the best things I’ve ever done in my entire life: Here’s a TL;DR summary of YC AI 2025...
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One of the best things I’ve ever done in my entire life: Here’s a TL;DR summary of YC AI 2025...
👑 Garry Tan
"The tools will keep evolving — but the mindset is what actually wins."
Also casually mentioned we were chosen out of 20K+ applicants. Insane.
🚀 Sam Altman
Blew the roof off the room.
Revealed a free OpenAI open-source API key dropping soon.
"Build things that look worthless today but could be worth billions."
Personal favourite quote: "Hire smart, young, scrappy people."
⚡ Elon Musk
“Don’t aspire to glory. Aspire to work.”
Stressed the importance of OBJECTIVE truth in AI to prevent world chaos.
Revealed Neuralink vision implants in humans are coming in 6–12 months.
🧠 François Chollet
Benchmarks don’t reflect true intelligence in either humans or machine learning models.
Real reasoning = abstraction, recombination, and fluid adaptation — not memorization.
🔎 Aravind Srinivas
Future browsers will access data beyond what MCP servers can touch.
⭐️ I got to personally thank him and the Perplexity team for helping me get a 100 in my Theory of Knowledge course.⭐️
🧪 Fei-Fei Li
“Language is generative — the world is not.”
The best thing a student can have is intellectual fearlessness.
🧬 John Jumper
Gave a rare behind-the-scenes look at how AlphaFold and Google DeepMind are using AI to predict millions of protein structures.
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The afterparties were incredible, the people were insanely talented, the food was unreal — and the memories? Absolutely priceless.
What an opportunity of a lifetime.
@Garry Tan — I’m all in for YC ’26.
Thank you for making my first time in America one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life.
#YCombinator #AIStartupSchool #OpenAI #Perplexity #ElonMusk #AlphaFold #DeepLearning #Startups #AGI #Innovation #YC2025 #AI #SamAltman
Photos in this post:
- A packed hall at AI Startup School, with a speaker at a microphone shown on the big screen.
- The crowd at AI Startup School in front of a huge screen about messaging fellow attendees in the YC app.
- AI Startup School swag laid out: a tote bag, two caps, a lanyard with a badge, pink party glasses and a cookie.
- Sammy wearing pink party glasses, lying in a tub full of orange balls.
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