Phillip Yan
Founder of Maingen, Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies
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Phillip Yan is listed as a founder of Maingen. Maingen builds simulations for industrial operations ($5 trillion slice of the US economy) so frontier labs can train models that actually run power plants, factories, and datacenters.
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Real-world industrial operations are a $5T slice of the US economy, but benchmarks so far don’t focus on this sector because of the required domain expertise.
Real-world industrial operations are a $5T slice of the US economy, but benchmarks so far don’t focus on this sector because of the required domain expertise. Maingen builds evals and data to train frontier models on industrial tasks. SolarBench is our first industrial...
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Today we’re officially launching @MaingenInc on YC.
Today we’re officially launching @MaingenInc on YC. Frontier models have access to rich training environments for coding, finance, and legal, but not yet in the industrial economy. Maingen builds simulations of real industrial operations, so agents can run the physical world.
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peak twitter moment
peak twitter moment
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superintelligence confirmed
superintelligence confirmed
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agreed, gemini has a ways to get the same agentic performance, but recent models are promising!
agreed, gemini has a ways to get the same agentic performance, but recent models are promising!
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day 28/78: i want to be asymptotic to the limit.
day 28/78: i want to be asymptotic to the limit. when i do something in a day, i wonder why it could not have be done in half a day when i send 100 emails i ask why i couldn't do 200 being greedy in efficiency exposes blockers previously taken for granted
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day 27/78: I've have regrets almost every week in the batch; there's always something new I realize I could have done better.
day 27/78: I've have regrets almost every week in the batch; there's always something new I realize I could have done better. https://t.co/xLaiypqcYJ