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How builders at YC Startup School are using Gemini & Google AI

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We're here today at the YC startup school

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after party, talking with a bunch of founders, engineers,

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and students about their companies

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and how they're using AI as part of their work.

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I'm really excited to have Neil here today who

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is working at ramp.

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I'm an intern on the applied AI team.

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So essentially, what I'm doing is using Gemini 3.1 flashlights

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to help us parse a lot of our documents, especially

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receipts that are coming from our customers.

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I could basically call AI my co-founder

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at this point with my company.

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It's helped me in every step of the process.

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Specifically, Gemini Gemini's planning mode and fast mode

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is, I would say, the fastest out of every AI model.

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One of the biggest benefits I found with using Gemini

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is the context window.

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I feel that Gemini Flash is a very underrated model that's

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not appreciated enough.

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I feel that Flash often.

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You don't need a very hyper complicated model,

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and Flash does a lot of the great things

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that you need to be done very quickly.

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Tell us a little bit about how you're using AlphaFold.

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I'm using AlphaFold because it's a great way

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to visualize the different bacterial mutations that we

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see in our data.

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So I'm working on a problem known as antibiotic resistance.

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It has a really huge potential for global impact in the pharma

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and drug discovery industry, and it's really special

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that Google is helping fund products like AlphaFold.

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Continually innovating in this field.

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Have you been experimenting with the multilingual features

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of Gemini and Gemma as well.

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Our customers will upload receipts

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from Ubers that are like taken all around the world from Japan

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to Korea, for example.

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Our system is able to parse them,

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and it's able to do that with Gemini 3.1 flashlight.

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Even on the fly here, there was no internet,

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so I downloaded Gemma and I was using

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that to study on the plane.

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I love to use Gemini for research,

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especially when it comes to the research mode in Gemini.

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It's as simple as just one or two

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prompts that I can give to Gemini,

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and I really like the Deep Research mode there,

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and when I'm doing neuroscience research or working on a paper.

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Gemini has been a great help and helping me synthesize my ideas

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and helping me think through the different connections

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that I'm trying to make in my thinking.

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I can't wait to see the research that you do at Stanford.

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I think it's going to be amazing.

Interactive Summary

This video features interviews with various founders and researchers at a YC startup school event, focusing on how they utilize AI tools like Gemini, Gemma, and AlphaFold to enhance their work processes, including parsing receipts, drug discovery, and academic research.

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