Photon-1 learns computer use from 18 years of unlabeled screen recordings
ycombinator · x · 2026-07-24
Y Combinator is amplifying a startup’s announcement of imagination models, a new foundation-model architecture trained on internet-scale video.
The first model, Photon-1, reportedly learned to use a computer by watching 18 years of screen-recording video without action labels, suggesting a new route to learning from passive observation rather than manual supervision.
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