The Light Cone
Summary
The Light Cone covering Y Combinator, AI Agents, Go-to-Market Strategy, and AI Startups. Notable guests include Gary Tan (CEO, Y Combinator), Kuang Wong (Co-founder, Physical Intelligence), Ian Fisher (Co-founder and Co-CEO, Poetic), and Mukund (Founders, Emergent). Episodes span from Oct 2025 to May 2026.
Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan has returned to coding after a 13-year hiatus, leveraging modern AI tools to achieve a self-reported 400x productivity increase, shipping hundreds of thousands of lines of...
Physical Intelligence (PI) is building a single, generalist AI foundation model to control any robot for any task, aiming to create the 'GPT-1 moment' for robotics. Their core technical insight is ...
Emergent is a YC S24 company whose AI agent platform has seen explosive growth, with 7 million applications built in its first eight months, primarily by non-technical users. The platform enables d...