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▶ 22:30 · $OPEN-CODE · India Can Create The Largest AI Companies
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Y Combinator

India Can Create The Largest AI Companies

2026-06-27 · 1 company · 6 thematic
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ankit

YC partner who attended Startup School 2013 as a freshman; deep user of frontier AI coding tools (Anthropic Opus, Codex), advocates for high token spend to reach capability frontier.

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“there's this YC company called Open Code which is built on top of the open source models and they're very very good”
—ankit
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YC-backed Open Code praised for open-source AI coding agent
Open Code is a YC company building on open-source models that is 'very very good' for AI coding, demonstrating the viability of open-source alternatives to frontier closed models.