YC is hosting our first-ever AI startup school in San Francisco on June 16 and 17th.
AI Startup School will gather 2,500 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from the top AI founders and experts. This is a 100% free event and every attendee is hand-picked. Speakers include Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li, Varun Mohan, John Jumper, Aravind Srinivas, Michael Truell …and more still to be announced
Who should attend
This conference is for undergrads, graduate students and recent graduates in CS,
ML, applied math, and related technical fields. Even if you did not study these
fields in school, you may qualify if you are highly technical and can demonstrate
technical skills in e.g. open source repos, projects you've built, papers you've
published, etc.
Travel
For people flying in to SF, we will cover up to $500 in airfare. If you are
confirmed to attend, please reference your confirmation email for details.
Basics
Background
Include your college and any advanced degrees.
Capstone project scaled to 700+ internal users. Built an AI MCP procurement assistant cutting costs and improving transparency. Received full-time offer.
Winner of global hackathon. Built RAG system mapping enterprise workforce for internal hiring. Presented to Intel IT CTO in Santa Clara.
Built vertical SaaS platform for wind turbine construction; €150k LOI from Nordex SE. Led 7 engineers in backend, cloud, and cybersecurity.
Trained AI model for hydrogen optimization. Finalist, presented to Samsung Germany exec board. IP later transferred to ENBW.
Built rapid prototypes using CNC, soldering, and 3D printing. Supported by Germany's Ministry of Economy & Berlin's Deep Tech Hub.
Built AR-based market research platform installed in flagship stores. Prize used to fund first year of university.
My entry into tech during high-school. Designed UX flows and built automated Java tests for a WhatsApp competitor telco.