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Analysis Finds YC Startup Pitches Increasingly Alike
Original: Everyone says every YC startup is now the same AI agent. I ran cosine similarity on all 6,142 of them... # ai # data # l
A new data analysis of all 6,142 Y Combinator startups measured cosine similarity across their pitches, finding that 2025 batches are roughly 2.5 times more similar than earlier cohorts. The findings feed a running joke in tech circles that every new YC company is the same AI agent, now backed by numbers rather than anecdote.
Why now: Widespread commentary that YC's recent batches are dominated by near-identical AI agent startups, now quantified with data.
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Evidence
- Everyone says every YC startup is now the same AI agent. I ran cosine similarity on all 6,142 of them... # ai # data # llm # startup # software # coding # development # engineering # inclusive # community I ran cosine similarity on every YC startup. 2025 batches are 2.5x more… · hackaday@www.urbanmind.net · 2
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