YC's S26 Batch Has More RL Environment Startups Than AI-for-Sales Companies
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-30
- YC's newest S26 batch includes 236 companies. Going through all of them, chrislu found a counterintuitive signal: more startups are building RL environments than selling AI to sales teams.
- RL environments are core infrastructure for training agents, suggesting founder attention is shifting from thin app layers toward the training supply side.
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