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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator Jul 29, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 21:56 unnamed speaker Um, alluding to the previous era of mainframes, which was in the fifties and sixties, um, when IBM had these computers that used to fill up entire rooms, sometimes entire floors. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:43 unnamed speaker We did about twenty-plus different state-of-the-art local models, um, across GEMMA, GBD OSS, QUAN, IBM Granite, all in the range of one to two hundred billion parameters, some MOE, some dense.

How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator Jul 24, 2026 · 2 mentions

AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator Mar 16, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:51 unnamed speaker And so like maybe coming out of the second world war, you had sort of like a few big companies and people like built whole careers, hopefully staying at like IBM or whatever for a couple of decades and then retire.

Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator Sep 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:06 Aaron Levie It's been in the zeitgeist, um, self-driving cars, watching, you know, Watson on jeopardy, uh, using, you know, early products like Siri and Alexa.

The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:12 Garry Tan IBM, Salesforce, like, something like that, um, because they ended up adding large language model technology to what they were doing, and people just switched back, and suddenly the DevTool company suddenly realizes, oh, I had five…

Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator Nov 27, 2019 · 1 mention

Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator Jan 9, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:04 Vinod Khosla You know, if you're 20 years old, do you ask your dad, or your friends, ah, or if you have a marketing problem, do you ask somebody, ah, somebody who's done marketing at IBM?

Simon Benjamin on Architectures for Quantum Computing · Y Combinator May 25, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:37 Simon Benjamin In fact, if you look online, you will hear more about the superconducting qubits, which is the approach, the, the main approach that, uh, Google and IBM and even Intel are taking.
  • ▶ 1:12:41 Simon Benjamin I'm excited by that, and yet also a little bit worried by it, because of course when a startup company especially, but even a, you know, a titan like IBM, when they need to explain their actions to their investors and excite their…

John Preskill on Quantum Computing · Y Combinator May 16, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:21 John Preskill Well-known big players like IBM and Google and Microsoft and Intel, but also a lot of startups now.

Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator Jan 5, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:13 Leah Culver Um, and I love Swift, so I, I'd love to get involved with, um, what IBM is doing with, like, Swift on the server.

VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator Aug 4, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:59 Diane Greene Sobering, and, and so I'm like, wow, we got to do all these deals, and we got to struggle with Intel and Microsoft, and, and we were, and I wanted to do all these partnerships with the hardware vendor, big companies like IBM, so I thought…

Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator Oct 26, 2013 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:24 Nick Winter Every month that IBM did me in, it was like sophomore year, like, oh, no more.
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