The next @LightconePod is all about the recent AI developments from OpenAI, Google, and Meta — and their impact on startups. Have questions for the pod? Drop them👇🏽

Congrats to the team @HiPythagora on the $4M seed! Pythagora (YC W24) is an open-source dev tool that builds entire apps from scratch by talking to you. It uses LLMs to automate developer workflows and asks questions whenever it needs feedback. tech.eu/2024/05/14/y…

Congrats to the team @lancedb (YC W22) on the $8M seed! LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source database for AI. They're empowering AI teams to easily search over billions of vectors, process petabytes of images, and train on trillions of tokens. blog.lancedb.com/new…

Congrats to the team @nablabio (YC S20) on the $26M Series A! Using AI and massively parallel experimentation, Nabla designs antibodies that precisely bind the disease target at the right location, while minimizing manufacturability and toxicity risks. endpts.com/exclusive…

By focusing on data quality over quantity, @getmetalware (YC S23) was able to build a foundation model during the batch with less compute (GPT-2.5!).