YC's AI Investment Trends: From RAG in 2023 to Agents in 2025
suchenzang · x · 2026-08-01
An investor summarized the evolving focus of Y Combinator's frontier applied AI investments over the years:
- 2023: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) companies
- 2024: Wrapper applications
- 2025: AI Agents
- 2026 (Prediction): Data companies
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