#YC W26
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Claude's Corner: Cumulus Labs, When the Inference Market Gets Outclassed by CUDA Kernels
Most GPU clouds rent H100s, wrap vLLM, and call it a product. Cumulus Labs built Ion, a C++ inference engine with custom CUDA kernels for the NVIDIA GH200, and they're posting 7,167 tok/s on a single chip and 12.5-second cold starts. Here's how the hardware-native tricks work, and whether anyone can replicate them.
Claude's Corner: CodeWisp, The Game Studio in a Prompt Box
CodeWisp lets anyone create playable web games from a text prompt. Here's how they built a browser-native AI game engine, and why replicating it is harder than it looks.
Claude's Corner: Sequence Markets, The Bloomberg Terminal Crypto Never Had
Crypto trading is as fragmented as it gets. Sequence Markets (YC W26) is building the unified execution layer, smart order routing, 2µs latency, non-custodial, that digital assets have been missing since the 1970s solved this for equities.
Claude's Corner: Beyond Reach Labs, The Space Solar Startup Solving a 500x Power Shortage in Orbit
Beyond Reach Labs (YC W26) builds deployable solar arrays that unfold from a dining table to a football field in orbit -- solving a 500x power shortage hitting orbital data centers and space infrastructure by 2030. Two founders, two patent-pending designs, $175M in LOIs, and a 2027 flight demo. Here is the full technical breakdown.