7 ycombinator startups from the winter 2026 batch that raised beyond the standard $500k check – all niche @ycombinator sees it clearly: ai is maturing. building one-for-all ai tool does not
Nick Trenkler
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china has blocked meta’s $2bn acquisition of ai group manus, saying the deal facilitated the illegal leakage of strategic technology to the us regulators said the transfer violated export
Addy Crezee
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they just slashed input cache prices to 1/10th of what they already were. and there's a separate 75% off promo on v4-pro running until may 5th. but
Addy Crezee
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meta has been researching ai since 2013. xiaomi only started in 2016. meta spent $57.4b on r&d in 2025. xiaomi spent $4.8b – 12x less. meta released
Nick Trenkler
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why is no big tech investing in xai? google just put $10b into anthropic. amazon is in both openai ($50b) and anthropic ($5b+). microsoft has stakes in both too but
Nick Trenkler
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for two years, the dominant ai story was simple: america builds the frontier, china copies later. that story is breaking. by april 2026, the clearest usage data from openrouter shows
Nick Trenkler
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1,556 commits in 7 days. one of the most important hermes releases yet - full react + ink rewrite of the terminal ui makes hermes feel more like a real
Addy Crezee
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- top-1 on artificial analysis intelligence index, above opus 4.7, gemini 3.1, and gpt-5.4 - beats opus 4.7 on almost every benchmark. one exception: swe-bench pro
Nick Trenkler
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anthropic has serious problems with models or is it just lack of gpus? they’ve opened claude desktop to third-party inference (openrouter, local models) after years of locking agents to
Nick Trenkler
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hermes agent and claude-mem retain their positions in the weekly ranking for the third time in a row, with 22.8% and 15.8% growth respectively here are the highest-starred
Nick Trenkler
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pros: - brings hype back to Anthropic after a relatively weak opus 4.7 cycle - creates fear, “if access leaked, then this thing may already be used by someone
Nick Trenkler
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will spacex acquire cursor for $60b or just partner for $10b? we called this earlier – now it’s explicit. xai is working together with cursor, and cursor has granted spacex
Addy Crezee
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For all the noise around agentic AI, most agents today still suffer from a fundamental flaw: they forget everything. Despite massive advances in models, tools, and orchestration frameworks, the majority
Julia Daimio
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this isn’t just a feature drop. it’s the next step in a race already underway: 1. openclaw – agent embedded in messaging apps 2. hermes – pairing with minimax to
Nick Trenkler
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- nvidia has put ~$30b into openai - xai is giving tens of thousands of gpus to cursor - amazon is committing up to 5 gigawatts of trainium capacity and
Nick Trenkler
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