YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Silen Naihin

Founder of Experiential Labs, Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into a better model

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Silen Naihin is listed as a founder of 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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    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

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    I love @hackernews

    I love @hackernews

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    Got authoritative numbers for the speedup Longer setup time = text world model is more valuable https://t.co/BCB8xci85f

    Got authoritative numbers for the speedup Longer setup time = text world model is more valuable https://t.co/BCB8xci85f