How To Get AI Startup Ideas

Apply to AI Startup School in SF: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

There’s never been a better time to launch an AI startup, but many prospective founders find themselves stuck when it comes to thinking of a good idea. In this episode, the Lightcone hosts look at different ways breakthroughs can be discovered.

Apply to Y Combinator, applications for X25 are due Feb 11: https://ycombinator.com/apply

Learn more about the startups mentioned in this episode:

Salient: https://www.trysalient.com
Diode: https://diode.computer
Spur: https://www.spurtest.com
Datacurve: https://datacurve.ai
David AI: https://www.withdavid.ai
Can of Soup: https://canofsoup.com
Happenstance: https://happenstance.ai
Ezdubs: https://www.ezdubs.ai
Egress Health: https://tryegress.com
HappyRobot: https://happyrobot.ai
Abel Police: https://abelpolice.com
Sweetspot: https://www.sweetspot.so
Lilac Labs: https://www.drive-thru.ai
Automat: https://www.runautomat.com
ParadeDB: https://paradedb.com
Reducto: https://reducto.ai
Juicebox: https://juicebox.ai
Giga ML: https://gigaml.com
Zepto: https://www.zeptonow.com

Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
03:20 - First version
04:38 - Examples
10:55 - Pivoting
12:35 - Internships
22:20 - Going undercover
37:35 - Fundraising
41:45 - Product Market Fit