YC Summer 2026 (S26) company

Experiential Labs

Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into a better model

About Experiential Labs

We are building an open source gateway for AI budget holders to control model access and turn their traffic into better models that they own. We're a team that has earned an ML PhD at Georgia Tech, scaled AutoGPT to 160k GitHub stars, and led a self-driving simulation team at Waabi.

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    Today we’re officially launching @explabsai on YC.

    Today we’re officially launching @explabsai on YC. Companies spend more on AI every month, but none of it becomes an asset they own. Up to 97% cheaper and 50% higher quality.

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    we just open sourced a tool train a specialized model at Fable quality and half the cost it uses agent traces to continuously improve via • distillation and RL • model routing • token compaction

    we just open sourced a tool train a specialized model at Fable quality and half the cost it uses agent traces to continuously improve via • distillation and RL • model routing • token compaction

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    Excited to open source our world-model-harness! `wmh` makes it easy to go from agent traces -> faithful replication of your production environment Basically, an LLM pretends to be a Docker container but 5x faster Below is a comparison running 8 SWE-bench tasks https://t.co/a2BbyAhzRk

    Excited to open source our world-model-harness! `wmh` makes it easy to go from agent traces -> faithful replication of your production environment Basically, an LLM pretends to be a Docker container but 5x faster Below is a comparison running 8 SWE-bench tasks...

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    Experiential Labs announces its digital-twin approach

    Experiential Labs announces its digital-twin approach

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    In-context learning is a hack to remind your model.

    In-context learning is a hack to remind your model. CLaaS uses self-distillation to move that knowledge into weights, freeing up context. https://t.co/Cn6Qy7H3nD

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    STOP THROWING AWAY MONEY ON MODELS YOU DON'T OWN 📣📣

    STOP THROWING AWAY MONEY ON MODELS YOU DON'T OWN 📣📣

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    Had fun presenting at ICML with @StamblerLev Til next year :) https://t.co/YfmoexUFKl

    Had fun presenting at ICML with @StamblerLev Til next year :) https://t.co/YfmoexUFKl

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    It's 90% humidity and pouring in Korea Talk about latent spaces and well shaped loss curves for hours at ICML Started some training runs ...

    It's 90% humidity and pouring in Korea Talk about latent spaces and well shaped loss curves for hours at ICML Started some training runs at a WeWork, now getting kbbq A good life