Photon-1 learns computer use from 18 years of unlabeled screen recordings
ycombinator · x · 2026-07-24
Y Combinator is spotlighting a stealth project called imagination models: a new foundation-model architecture designed to learn from internet-scale video.
- The first model, Photon-1, reportedly learned to use a computer by watching 18 years of screen-recording video with no action labels.
- The post positions this as a new way to train models from raw observational data rather than task annotations.
Related event: Photon-1 Learns Computer Operation from 18 Years of Unlabeled Video(4 posts)→
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