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Today, we're sharing how Instinct is making lunar transport routine. Getting to the Moon costs $100M and a dedicated launch. We rideshare to orbit, then fly the rest of the way, delivering 20kg at half the cost per kg. Fly with us ๐ท instinct-space.com/fly-with-us
00:00 - An AI just sold an insurance policy entirely on its own. @kinroai is the autonomous insurance brokerage. AI agents that quote, answer, and serve your insurance needs 24/7. Congrats on the launch, @corentin_hgt, @pierrealexai, & @parthfyi! kinro.com
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AI is making marketers lazy. So we made the website do the work instead. Today, we're launching @ployai: the all-in-one marketing platform that turns your website into your hardest working employee. And we're coming out of stealth today with a $27M seed led by @ycombinator and
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Harshita Arora was 17 when she cofounded AtoB and got into YC. I was 27 when I cofounded Posterous and got into YC. Nicolas Dessaigne was 37 when he cofounded Algolia and got into YC It doesnโt matter what age you are. YC is the community to join to go fast when starting. - Y Combinator reposted9Mothers is one of those technologies whose impact is immediately obvious to warfightersJust an anti-drone artillery gun at YC demo day. Nothing to see hereโฆ
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I was 37 when I did YC and it transformed my companyYC is absolutely YC for 35+ founders. We fund many founders in that bracket every batch and will continue to. If you want to build a huge fast-growing company alongside a peer group of the most ambitious people in the planet, you should apply to YC regardless of age. If your - Y Combinator reposted
Today we're launching Exa Agent: Opus/GPT 5.5 quality web research at 2-10x lower cost. It's our most powerful endpoint, particularly good at deep research and list-building - as cheaply as possible. Basically you can now use a deep research API for close to the cost of a
00:30Introducing Exa Agent: frontier web research at less than half the cost of GPT 5.5 and Opus. /agent orchestrates a mixture of cost-effective models to complete any web research task, from simple data enrichments to building gigantic lists. - Y Combinator reposted
We're excited to announce Christopher Golda (@golda) and Grey Baker (@greybaker) as YC's newest General Partners! Chris co-founded BackType (S08), sold it to Twitter, then built their entire ad business from zero to $1B+ in revenue. Grey co-founded Dependabot, a developer tool
