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Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space

Inside The Startup Launching AI Data Centers Into Space

Starcloud launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit, a first step towards building massive AI data centers in space. Their vision is to leverage continuous solar power and zero-water cooling to overcome Earth's energy and resource limitations for large-scale compute.

Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto

Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto

A summary of the conversation between YC's Harj Taggar and Base's Jesse Pollak about the 'golden age of crypto,' covering the evolution to Fintech 3.0, the technological and regulatory shifts enabling it, and the key opportunities for founders in stablecoins, tokenization, and the intersection of AI and crypto.

Motion: Redefining How Work Gets Done

Motion: Redefining How Work Gets Done

The founders of Motion discuss their journey from lucrative seven-figure trading jobs to building a work management platform. They detail a critical pivot away from a successful $20M ARR consumer product to a B2B suite, and their current strategy of embedding "AI employees" directly into workflows, leveraging proprietary data and a unified human-AI task management system.

Exa: Organizing the World’s Knowledge

Exa: Organizing the World’s Knowledge

Will Bryk, co-founder and CEO of Exa, discusses the journey and technology behind building a search engine from scratch, specifically designed for AI systems. He explains why traditional search engines fail in an AI-first world and how Exa's full-stack, compute-heavy approach aims to solve the world's "information blocker" problems.