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YC Paper Club AI research

YC Paper Club · @ycombinator · May 28, 2026
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Last week we hosted the first ever YC Paper Club in Mountain View. We brought together great AI researchers and founders to discuss both the state of the art and what it actually takes to get it into production. Thanks to the following presenters: 0:12 - Intro from YC Visiting Partner @FrancoisChauba1 3:49 - Tanishq Kumar (@tanishqkumar07) — Speculative Speculative Decoding (https://t.co/tFtsdZp1JC) 18:33 - Guangyao (Stannis) Zhou (@zhouguangyao) — Diffusion-MPC (https://t.co/9aIXKGgt4s) 30:26 - Isaac Ward — LeWorldModeling (https://t.co/hgXjHKsg2H) 43:54 - Akshay Vegesna (@akshayvegesna) — Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different (https://t.co/o5EAC5QtV7) 51:24 - Konwoo Kim (@konwookim) — Pretraining Under Infinite Compute (https://t.co/4rArPbaZ6K)

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