How many startups are in Y Combinator's new batch?

It’s that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch present their products for media — and investor — scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter’s 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm suffered a slight slump.

How many AI startups are in the Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort?

The Y Combinator Winter 2024 cohort has 86 AI startups, according to YC’s official startup directory — nearly double the number from the Winter 2023 batch and close to triple the number from Winter 2021. Call it a bubble or overhyped, but clearly, AI is the tech of the moment.

What Y Combinator startups are focusing on?

Several startups in the Y Combinator cohort focus not on what AI can accomplish, but on the tools and infrastructure necessary to AI from the ground up. There’s , for example, which provides a platform to enable customers to access and deploy AI training and inferencing workloads to any cloud provider.