The ML Technique Every Founder Should Know

Diffusion is the foundational machine learning framework behind state-of-the-art AI image and video generation, including Sora, Midjourney and Google Veo. In this episode of Decoded, YC General Partner Ankit Gupta sits down with YC Visiting Partner Francois Chaubard to discuss how diffusion works, walk through a code sample, and explain why everyone training models should understand it. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:33 What is diffusion? 02:50 What are applications of diffusion today? 04:06 Key innovations 07:01 Code examples 19:25 The "squint test" 22:27 Other areas diffusion is widely accessible 24:49 Outro