YC Paper Club Announces Star-Studded Lineup: Data Mixing, Robotics, and Multilingual Models
ycombinator · x · 2026-08-11
Y Combinator has unveiled the speaker lineup for its upcoming YC Paper Club, featuring prominent academics and founders from institutions like Stanford, Cornell, and MIT.
Key sessions include:
- dLLMs for Code: Inceptionlabs founders discussing the data behind their Mercury model.
- Data Mixing: Stanford Hazy lab presenting OLMIX, a framework for data mixing throughout LM development.
- Weak Supervision: Snorkel AI founder sharing insights on weak supervision and data slicing.
- Scaling Laws: MIT/Anthropic researcher exploring practical scaling laws for multilingual models (ATLAS).
- Robotics Data: 1X VP AI and Google Brain alum discussing the data required to build their Neo robot.
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