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Ray Liao Verified account @rayruizhiliao · 1d

We raised $5.3M to give AI agents a computer to run on, with their own email, phone, iMessage, and WhatsApp

Led by @peakxvpartners, with @rauchg, @sternhenri, @jefrankle, @cjc, and @daniel_levine

Today we’re launching hosted agents on @inkbox_ai. Your agent runs next to its communication channels, so it never misses a reply. It sleeps when idle, so you don’t pay for downtime.

In the 4 months since our YC launch, we’ve processed millions of messages for AI agents.

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mrs. robot Verified account @keyserfaty · Oct 30

today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh

a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon).

we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems:
* coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store.

* reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something.

* speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.

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Campbell Verified account @abcampbell · Oct 15

the price of tokens is down

but the price of compute is up

as are neocloud yields

wut mean?

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Michael Wang Verified account @michaelwangelo · Aug 14

hey, Michael from Prodigy Research (YC S26) again

Our launch has made the rounds and produced a lot of discourse. Much of it is around a few particular questions: if you have alpha, why raise money at all? and why do YC in particular? I’ll tackle these in order.

First, why raise money at all if you have alpha?

The short answer is that we are raising money for the same reason any business raises money.

There is a lot of what I would call “magical thinking” about trading. Many people have a mental model where a profitable trading strategy is like a magic faucet. You turn it on and unlimited money comes out, simple as. If this were the case, it would be irrational for the owner of such a faucet to raise money. If more money is needed, simply get it out of the faucet.

But in fact, it takes capital to convert alpha to dollars! Prodigy is training models and building the machine that generates alpha. Capital allows us to convert alpha to dollars faster and more efficiently, do bigger and better training runs with more compute, conduct more model inference and research, build infrastructure that allows us to do more demanding kinds of trades, and generally grow the pie faster in a win-win way.

So we could recast this question as: “if you have [the core of a really profitable business], why raise money?”

You will notice that this is an argument against raising money in general. A business can be profitable today (as Prodigy is) and yet have extraordinarily high-return opportunities in which to invest marginal dollars. If a dollar spent on compute today can create far more than one dollar of long-term business value, then it is much more rational to raise that dollar than to deliberately grow more slowly to avoid fundraising.

That brings us to our second question: why raise from YC in particular?

Prodigy can build and grow much faster with more compute, and raising equity capital gives us the flexibility to do that. We could have raised outside of YC, but YC offers us things like access to incredibly ambitious founders, partners who know an enormous amount about building companies, and many other resources from which we have already derived a huge amount of value.

We’re heads-down building right now, and we’re super excited about scaling quant trading beyond human limits.

founders@prodigy.markets

@realProdigyCorp

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