Mark Saroufim(@marksaroufim):It was an honor to give this talk especially at the OG YC building. I grew up on PG essays and it was exciting to meet so many young entrepreneurs working on hard systems problems.

2026.07.30 07:07

It was an honor to give this talk especially at the OG YC building. I grew up on PG essays and it was exciting to meet so many young entrepreneurs working on hard systems problems.

Y Combinator@ycombinator

2026.07.29 23:48

At our latest YC Paper Club, researchers and builders presented on multi-GPU kernels, intelligence per watt, heterogeneous inference, and more. Thank you to our presenters: 0:00 – @FrancoisChauba1: The case for chip and kernel specialization 7:16 – @stuart_sul: Parallel Kittens - Systematic and Practical Simplification of Multi-GPU Al Kernels ( 21:29 – @JonSaadFalcon: Intelligence per Watt - Measuring the Intelligence Efficiency of Local and Cloud AI ( 31:05 – @MarkSaroufim: When Al Starts Writing Systems Code 47:04 – Misha Smelyanskiy: Why AI Inference Needs Heterogeneous Hardware 1:04:33 – @shacklettbp: Building a High-Throughput Game Engine that Runs ENTIRELY on the GPU (