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Statement

AI Research Labs

Y Combinator
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  • YC intends to fund additional AI research labs, noting its historical role as OpenAI's first investor and acknowledging that OpenAI originated as YC's internal research lab, "YC Research."
  • YC emphasizes that while OpenAI successfully pioneered the independent AI research lab model, significant unsolved problems remain, creating continued opportunities for new entrants in the field.
  • Contrary to the common perception that YC requires products to be shipped within three months, the accelerator is explicitly open to backing deep, open-ended research with multi-year commercialization timelines, mirroring the OpenAI trajectory.
  • YC is actively soliciting applications from founders interested in pursuing long-term research initiatives similar to the OpenAI model.