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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:43 Diana Hu Back in, way back in 2001, Google search used to run on hard drives. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43 Diana Hu Back in, way back in 2001, Google search used to run on hard drives. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Diana Hu So one of the stories about you is that back in, uh, when speech recognition started to work at Google, you did the nap, napkin math, where if every Google user used their phone and talked to it and used the speech recognition system for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Jeff Dean That turns out to be really useful for machine learning inference, even though it can't run Chrome or Word or whatever.
- ▶ 19:56 Jeff Dean Yeah, I mean, I guess, uh, Sanjay and I were working a few weeks ago, and we, you know, we often do some amount of, like, uh, performance improvement for very low-level libraries, and we have a microbenchmark library we've written at… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Jeff Dean Yeah, I mean, we have, ah, you know, harnesses, and then we have a whole set of skills, ah, particularly in the internal Google development environment, we have skills so that the agents can know how to use lots of our internal tooling for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:36 Diana Hu So the thing about Google is you co-design everything on the system from the processors to the products. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:35 Jeff Dean So we had worked, you know, my Sanjay and myself and a number of other colleagues had worked on various iterations of the crawling and indexing system at Google. 3 times in the scene
Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:11 unnamed speaker Um, and that's kind of how we're still constructing at least the data centers today, where you have these warehouses filled with, um, TPUs or, um, GPUs from, uh, Google and Nvidia respectively. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 unnamed speaker Um, just want to thank, um, our collaborators on this project, um, from NVIDIA, from Google, from Apple, AMD, Open Router, SambaNova.
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:55 Alexandr Wang Uh, GCP account.
Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:06 Blake Scholl I put a Google news alert on supersonic, and yet there was more progress in supersonic music than supersonic flying.
Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Sam Altman Every week come, I think it was on Tuesdays, and he would, like, cook, he himself would cook us dinner, and we would all walk in feeling, like, very hopeless and very dejected, and we would, there were eight companies, and then we would…
How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:17 Olivier Pomel Uh, I mean, I mean, now, you know, look, now there's, there's, uh, you know, DeepMind and OpenAI and Meta.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:40 Mark Pincus But I think that these, what I call these internet treasures, these services we can't remember life before or imagine life without, like a Google, um, or a GPT now.
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:19 Bryant Chou This is definitely a Google VO video and all these sort of prompts and sort of knowledge about how to create these type of videos are embedded into play.
- ▶ 17:23 Jared Friedman So I wired this up to Y Combinator's Google Analytics and Google Search Console and pulled in all the data.
- ▶ 35:22 Bryant Chou Have maybe an appreciation for how some things you have to get right and not to bring it back to play again, but you can't create a hundred websites and then expect Google to think that, Hey, you're an authoritative source and just…
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:30 Pedro Franceschi But it was the kind of thing that was like, yeah, it feels like a research project, the kind of thing that Google used to release, and you're like, you play with it for 10 minutes and you stop.
- ▶ 11:38 Pedro Franceschi Is interacting with AI in what I call like Google search mode way, which is a chat bot with a few MCPs, um, or a G suite equivalent that you, yeah, you have a few tools from Google, but at the end of the day, it's really just like a search.
- ▶ 11:38 Pedro Franceschi Is interacting with AI in what I call like Google search mode way, which is a chat bot with a few MCPs, um, or a G suite equivalent that you, yeah, you have a few tools from Google, but at the end of the day, it's really just like a search.
- ▶ 11:38 Pedro Franceschi Is interacting with AI in what I call like Google search mode way, which is a chat bot with a few MCPs, um, or a G suite equivalent that you, yeah, you have a few tools from Google, but at the end of the day, it's really just like a search.
- ▶ 50:53 Garry Tan Google takeout.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:04 Garry Tan You know, if you think about, um, data science, uh, historically, one of the first things that the Googlers had to figure out was a big table, right?
- ▶ 40:56 Garry Tan And, um, the Google Gmail, like I can't change the prompt thing is like the perfect example of that.
- ▶ 44:43 Garry Tan This should be an extension of yourself and what you care about, not what, you know, Meta or Alphabet or even OpenAI or Anthropic care about.
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
Recursion Is The Next Scaling Law In AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:08 Francois Chaubard Of adding recursion into models, and you've seen things like the recursion language models out of Google, um, that are, are pretty powerful and cool, um, and so, uh, that's, that's definitely one piece that's, I don't think, going away…
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:34 Garry Tan Today, Demis leads Google DeepMind, where he's building Gemini and pushing toward the same goal he set when he was a teenager, artificial general intelligence.
- ▶ 3:25 Demis Hassabis So of course at DeepMind, at Google DeepMind, we work on both those things.
- ▶ 6:08 Garry Tan DeepMind has historically leaned into reinforcement learning and search. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:55 Demis Hassabis Um, there are obviously there's search with AI overviews and AI mode and there's Gemini app.
- ▶ 9:00 Demis Hassabis And now increasingly every single product at Google has, you know, maps and YouTube and so on has,
- ▶ 9:00 Demis Hassabis And now increasingly every single product at Google has, you know, maps and YouTube and so on has,
- ▶ 11:00 Garry Tan It's like a thousand X the work that a Google engineer from the 2000 was doing.
- ▶ 15:33 Garry Tan What does DeepMind's internal research tell you about where agent capabilities actually are right now versus, you know, sort of the hype out there?
- ▶ 38:07 Garry Tan So for that, I think everyone in this room thanks you and the folks at DeepMind very, very deeply from the bottom of our hearts.
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 39:09 Quan Vuong We have a, like, larger than average founding teams, and some of us worked really closely together when we were at the robotic team at Google, and the robotics team at Google was, I think, a really, really great environment for seeing the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:31 Diana Hu What were the differences of, um, you working before in either academia or a big industry, big company like Google, and as opposed to now in a startup?
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:01 Jared Friedman Yes, because like the human analyst, a big part of what they would do is they would go and they would like Google for names 2 times in the scene
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:53 François Chollet And, uh, in, uh, I was doing, uh, research at Google Brain on trying to train deep learning models to help with, uh, reasoning problems, and in particular, uh, first-order logic problems, uh, uh, theorem proving, and so on.
- ▶ 16:10 François Chollet I wasn't moving very, very fast, uh, on that.
- ▶ 32:46 François Chollet And even before OpenAI, uh, DeepMind worked a lot on video game, uh, uh, you know, solving video games, yeah, DeepIsle, uh, and they were the first to do 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:06 François Chollet Uh, there's a big team at Google that's working on it and they are doing an amazing job. 3 times in the scene
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:25 Mukund Jha I dropped out of the PhD program, joined Google, and Maddy went on to, um, was in Zenefits, then went on, uh, to start the deep learning team at Amazon.
- ▶ 26:25 Mukund Jha I mean, I think it's like when I went back to India, uh, you know, after Google, and I always had this thought that why is there no Google or Facebook from India, right? 2 times in the scene
Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:47 Aaron Epstein Um, it's, it's usually like the Google colors, you know, it's like red, yellow, green, blue.
The Powerful Alternative To Fine-Tuning · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 unnamed speaker Previously, he spent a decade as a researcher at Google DeepMind and founded a mobile dev tools company through YC years ago.
- ▶ 1:55 Ian Fisher Uh, and, you know, of course, Anthropic and OpenAI and Google, they're exploring recursive self-improvement, but
- ▶ 13:38 Ian Fisher Yeah, and so that definitely varies per problem, but, uh, what we've seen, uh, in fact, uh, our, our last paper at DeepMind was not doing this recursive self-improving stuff, but we were, um, we were showing that you could build these…
- ▶ 16:18 unnamed speaker Slight sort of change, change the topic, but something I was curious about, uh, so you arrived at Google over a decade ago when they acquired your first YC startup at Portable. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Ian Fisher In Google research, which was this amazing opportunity for me since that wasn't my background.
- ▶ 18:07 Ian Fisher Made a very hard switch into just doing machine learning research, uh, and did that for, you know, about a decade at Google and then, uh, Google and then DeepMind.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:10 unnamed speaker Uh, currently averages 1000 X more productivity than a Google engineer at Google's peak, which is really an insane number. 2 times in the scene
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:54 Raphael Schaad Yeah, what would you rather, um, uh, sort of like not show your Google search history at this point or your, you know, memory.md files? 2 times in the scene
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:39 Garry Tan The thing is, it's winning the internet, and it was like that before when it was like Stack Overflow, searching Google, and then now that nobody uses Google anymore, it's like crazy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:50 Calvin French-Owen Um, and so it's like, oh, you need to wire up, like, the same data going to, like, Mixpanel and Kissmetrics and Google Analytics, et cetera.
The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:19 Harj Taggar I replaced my Google searches with Gemini and I just sort of trusted that Google's, I think like the groundings API and its ability to actually like use the Google index to give you like real time information correctly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:19 Harj Taggar I replaced my Google searches with Gemini and I just sort of trusted that Google's, I think like the groundings API and its ability to actually like use the Google index to give you like real time information correctly.
- ▶ 14:21 Diana Hu Google are yet to be started because those come in in the deployment phase, because right now I think these things, things are still getting built up.
- ▶ 14:55 Garry Tan Uh, suddenly Google's doing it.
- ▶ 21:23 Garry Tan Varun Mohan had gone over to Google. 2 times in the scene
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:42 Spencer Skates I mean, honestly, I joke about this, but anything Google's trying to do, I think that Google is the worst B to B company of all time, and there's an incredible opportunity to compete with them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Spencer Skates Workspace stuff.
- ▶ 26:58 Spencer Skates I think what the Notion guys, for example, are doing as a competitor to Google Docs is, is very exciting.
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:31 Mike Mignano Maybe you and I have, uh, missed the, the browser opportunity now that we have Dia and Comet, but I think back to two, three years ago, I saw these browsers and I just, I just passed on the opportunity because I'm like, oh, you, you can't…
From Idea to $650M Exit: Lessons in Building AI Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:04 Jake Heller If you've ever seen like a real person's Google queries, they're barely legible.
Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:55 unnamed speaker So Google recently released, um, an HTA protocol to standardize how agents would talk to agents.
Anthropic Head of Pretraining on Scaling Laws, Compute, and the Future of AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:31 Ankit Gupta I think back to the days of the early days of Google, for example, where there's these cases where they basically bought relatively cheap consumer chips, and then they optimized the software to make it so you can actually get the most bang…
- ▶ 12:51 Ankit Gupta Like, FAIR and DeepMind were hiring lots of people out of top PhD programs and doing lots of things.
- ▶ 25:17 Ankit Gupta Or if you guys are using TPU versus GPU, are these, you know, Google TPU versus NVIDIA GPU, do you actually have to think as an engineer differently about what it means to train on these two?
- ▶ 26:43 Ankit Gupta Yeah, on your, on your point about sometimes the computer just breaks, I definitely remember you giving me an anecdote of, uh, my company at the time was doing something with Google TPUs, and I was telling you something, some anecdote… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:43 Ankit Gupta Yeah, on your, on your point about sometimes the computer just breaks, I definitely remember you giving me an anecdote of, uh, my company at the time was doing something with Google TPUs, and I was telling you something, some anecdote… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:11 Ankit Gupta It's like the original Google algorithm of, like, links and, like, which links get touched the most, basically.
Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:17 Jesse Pollak Now, the thing that Ethereum pushed forward over the last five years was they said, hey, if we want to get to the sort of scale that can enable, you know, the next Google to grow, that serves billions of people, there's inevitably going to…
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:49 Aaron Levie We started the company in 2005, and this was a, this was a time where you have to kind of, you know, literally go back 20 years and think about a world where the internet was much slower, browsers were way worse, we didn't have the iPhone,…
- ▶ 5:20 Aaron Levie It just like emerged one day and it was like, this is like, it seems kind of cool and efficient, but if you're in an IT department, the cloud was actually very scary because you're taking your servers that you manage, you can see them,…
- ▶ 24:15 David Lieb I mean, I saw this at Google photos, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 David Lieb And when we proposed that we should build Google photos, a lot of people at Google were like, why would you do that?
- ▶ 34:25 Aaron Levie Um, in our business, Google photos, you tend to have this, this curve, which is the most active data needs to be, you know, in the, in, in basically the part of your servers and in the regions that are most sort of fast, you know, fast…
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:50 Amjad Masad I'm not going to sell to scale AI so that they can sell to, to open AI or Google, all those.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:21 Bob McGrew yeah, I, I think, yeah, maybe, maybe that's a really key point here, is that the kind of company you have to build is a learning company, and I think everybody wants to build a learning company, but if you're a company like Google or Meta,…
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:15 Michael Truell We looked on Google.
- ▶ 3:41 Michael Truell We had no idea how to build it, and so again, you know, started the place where one would start, which is Google, and kind of went down a lot of rabbit holes, and, you know, took us into a place of, uh, learning about genetic algorithms,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:22 Michael Truell Each of us kind of had our own little robot dog moment where one of my co-founders, he worked on, uh, trying to build a competitor, Google actually, uh, using LMs in, in twenty-twenty-one and, and training his own, um, and training his own… 2 times in the scene
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:22 Max Junestrand We were playing around in AI and legal way before ChatGPT, and we were using these early models from BERT, coming from Google.
- ▶ 38:11 Max Junestrand I mean, Google is building Google Workspace with Gemini.
- ▶ 38:11 Max Junestrand I mean, Google is building Google Workspace with Gemini.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:16 Chas Englander And so rather than having to go and gather that information, once that release happens, this one pager effect, it was actually three pages, a cover page, your main page, and a legal page, just appears in your SharePoint or Google Drive,…
Nobel Laureate John Jumper: AI is Revolutionizing Scientific Discovery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:59 John Jumper And after this, I joined Google DeepMind. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:25 Aravind Srinivas Google I.O. last year was AI overview, and perplexity's dead.
- ▶ 2:42 Aravind Srinivas And Chrome was exciting when each tab was its own process.
- ▶ 3:04 David Lieb Um, and I think Sundar at Google probably would say that's the direction we're headed as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 Aravind Srinivas Google already has one called Chrome, so it's completely reasonable to expect them to do it.
- ▶ 11:32 David Lieb And at that point, like, on that New Year's Eve, did you in your head think, I'm building a thing that could really compete with Google and, like, take over a market as big as what Google offers? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:49 Aravind Srinivas Sundar wrote a blog post about Bard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 David Lieb Yeah, I heard you talk about this recently, but, you know, Google specifically has been trying to build perplexity-like experiences, um, and, you know, you joked. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 David Lieb Yeah, they just, like, changed the name of it, each Google I.O., and then not really.
- ▶ 16:38 Aravind Srinivas The Google I.O., exactly the same set of comments repeated this year. 2 times in the scene
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