YC data · 6,352 companies · October 22, 2026
Formation · First surfaced Summer 2025

General Intelligence

All formations
Accelerated · Summer 202580% confidenceObserved October 22, 2026Source: Description cluster · description-only
The count
3.46×

3/977 → 6/564; +0.76 percentage points of formation share.

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The companies behind the signal — 6
Summer 2025
Sapien

Synthetic populations for decisions. Surveys ask people what they think they’ll do. Focus groups ask a handful of people to explain behavior they often don’t understand themselves. Sapien simulates entire populations instead. We create AI agents that model how real audiences behave, letting companies, governments, and investors test decisions in minutes: what product to launch, what price to set, what campaign to run, what policy will work, or how a market will move. The output is not another dashboard. It’s a prediction of what will happen, which segments will drive it, and what decision is most likely to win.

Spring 2025
Leeroo

Organizational Superintelligence. An AI that continuously learns your organization’s knowledge and expert playbooks, uses experimentation, and with human approval ships data & AI programs and their operational UIs on your existing stack.

Winter 2025
Trim

A foundation model for physics.. Trim is building a general intelligence AI model that can simulate real-world physical systems evolving over time.

Winter 2025
General Trajectory

AI for the physical world. General Trajectory is using AI to solve the world's most important problems, from autonomous defense to scientific R&D.

Winter 2025
Rocketable

The AI Maximalist Software Holding Company. Rocketable is building a large portfolio of wildly profitable software businesses by acquiring existing products and replacing human teams with AI agents. Today’s foundation models already possess enough intelligence to automate most of the tasks required to run a profitable software business. In the functions where agents aren’t yet intelligent enough to replace humans, they will be soon. When every human function required to operate a software product has an AI agent equivalent, the next step will be within reach: operating an entire company with a team of AI agents instead of humans. But superintelligent agents within each function won’t be enough. To operate a software company with 0 human employees, the agents will need to be directed towards common goals, integrated to collaborate across functions, tuned with feedback loops connected to p

Fall 2024
Gecko Security

The AI Security Engineer to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities. We built Gecko for teams that want to build secure code quickly without wasting time on security tools that don’t deliver results, or relying on one-time human pentests that quickly become outdated. Gecko uses AI to understand how your application should work, simulates relevant attacks to find critical vulnerabilities, and then verifies these vulnerabilities by exploiting them. It also helps you understand the risk of these vulnerabilities and applies a working fix to keep your code secure.

Inside General Intelligence

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of General Intelligence that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “General Intelligence,” publication yc-2026-10-22-semantic-v8, snapshot October 22, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/general-intelligence