AI Research Labs

At YC, we want to fund more AI research labs. Many people don't realize this, but YC was the first investor in Open AI. In fact, OpenAI began life as YC research, our in-house research lab.OpenAI pioneered the concept of independent AI research labs, and we have had a front row seat to the entire journey. While OpenAI is doing incredible work, there are many unsolved problems in AI and still plenty of opportunity for new research labs. Sometimes people think that to do YC you have to be able to ship a produ ...