AI-Native Discovery Engines

By Y Combinator

Categories: VC, Startup, Design

Transcript Excerpt

For centuries, scientific discovery has run on the same loop. Hypothesize, experiment, interpret, and repeat. The loop works, but it's slow, and every step requires significant human effort to advance. That's changing fast as frontier models have reached PhD level performance on many scientific reasoning benchmarks. Models can now assist researchers in proposing hypotheses, generating experiments, analyzing data, and suggesting next steps in discovery. Increasingly, the frontier is shifting from...