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Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Today, we're releasing our open-weight, auto-routing model @daridotdev, built for coding agents.
We're state-of-the-art on the Pareto Frontier, w/ 70% cost reduction + comparable coding performance to Fable.
Bring your own evals, choose your models, or use our defaults.
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
We made deploying agents to prod so easy your coding agent can do it in under 5 minutes.
Get a production-grade API that scales to 100s of concurrent sessions, pauses for days between messages, and recovers sessions even on sandbox crashes or LLM provider failure.
@daridotdev
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Introducing @daridotdev.
Deploy your AI agent as a stateful, versioned API.
- durable sessions
- built-in execution + sandboxes
- tools, files, retries handled
Stop stitching infra. Just dari deploy.
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Back at @ycombinator for alumni demo day and you could feel the difference. Observations as a founder-turned-investor:
1. W26 is shipping way faster than earlier batches. Floored by companies that pivoted in the last few weeks with real products and customers. I attempted a late pivot in the S21 batch and it was… not like that
2. Spending more on tokens than headcount. Many 2-person teams consuming over $75K of tokens / month with no signs of slowing down.
3. First hires are increasingly in sales / commercial engineer roles, not “pure” devs. Distribution > engineering.
4. Crazy traction, and it’s not just "YC ARR”. Founders running sales / success / support agents are showing up to enterprise conversations looking like mature orgs. Lots of healthcare, banking, govt logos across the batch.
5. Valuations reflect all of this. Most teams raising at $30-40M vs ~$20M just a year or two ago. Love seeing founders get rewarded for speed, progress, profitability.
6. And a fun surprise: tons of deeptech love! Robotics, energy, drug discovery - YC branching out in a positive way.
Most importantly: founders still love YC. Reuniting with my batchmates (five years later!) and supporting W26 founders means more than I can put into a tweet.
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Vogent launched Voice Agent Wizard - it builds complete voice AI agents from a simple text description in minutes instead of weeks.
building a working voice agent today means 3-4 weeks of development, tweaking parameters, and debugging why it breaks with real users.
The wizard is trained on thousands of actual agent designs. You describe what you want, upload a few conversation examples, and it generates everything - architecture, prompts, edge case handling.
More details 1/2
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
With @vogentai's Voice Agent Wizard, you can create an effective voice agent with just a short description.
Trained on the design processes of thousands of production agents, their wizard helps you go from idea to production voice agent in minutes.
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
.@vogentai just released Vogent-Turn-80M: an open-source, state-of-the-art turn-detection model for voice AI.
It improves any voice AI stack by detecting when to wait and when to speak, reducing interruptions and making conversations more humanlike.
blog.vogent.ai/posts/voturn-…
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
The Vogent AI team nailed this one 🔥🔥 They rearchitected the sesame CSM 1B model for:
- Ultra-realistic streaming voice
- Latency < 200ms
- Easy voice cloning (example Trump)
Listen to the AI Trump tariffs conversation but wait till you hear the next one.
More details 👇
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Excited to share our deployment of Sesame voices - use them for no additional cost!
We rebuilt @sesame's CSM-1B to make the most realistic voice agents you’ve ever seen.
Try it yourself and talk to the president at (510) 315-0014
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Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
look at our fearless founder crushing it!
cookie clicker in <10 mins with cursor & hyperbrowser mcp! 🤯
ai devs, can you beat the boss? try it & show us! 😏
@cursor_ai @hyperbrowser
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Vogent (@vogentai) just launched voice AI agents that design and improve themselves, learning from real failure cases and requiring no prompt engineering.
ycombinator.com/launches/N1x…
Congrats on the launch, @jagath_vyth and @vigneshv59!
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
We Hacked YouTube with AI in <100 Lines 🧠👾
Imagine asking a bot: "what's the best tip in this 3-hour vid?"
and it nails it. No scrubbing. No BS.
Built with Hyperbrowser
Watch this 👇
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
Turn the web into your personal audiobook. Right now. 🎙️📕
Built with @streamlit @hyperbrowser + some AI spice—try it, break it, make it yours. 💻🔥
Watch this ⬇️
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
🚀 @vogentai launched! Build Voice AI Agents, Fast
"Vogent is the all-in-one platform for building effective voice agents quickly"
🌐 fondo.ai/415gyg1
Congrats @jagath_vyth @vigneshv59!!
Vignesh Varadarajan retweeted
YC S21's @vogentai is an all-in-one platform for building voice AI agents using intelligent building blocks, including drag-and-drop conversational flow builders, IVR detection models, spelling-optimized voices, custom phone-ready LLMs, and more.
ycombinator.com/launches/Mhs…