TL;DR: Aemon is a Y Combinator Winter 2026 startup The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer , currently active with a team of 3.
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Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find. Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math optimization problem with <$10 of compute, beating the previous record set by Google DeepMind in 2025. Ray and Richard (twin brothers) dropped out of UWaterloo and UIUC to build Aemon. They published at top AI conferences like ICLR and EMNLP before turning 20.
Yes. Aemon was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch. The Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineer
Aemon is the first autonomous research engineer that delivers state-of-the-art solutions to your engineering problems. It generates, tests, and evolves thousands of approaches at machine speed to discover optimal solutions beyond what human experts can find. Aemon already set a new world record on an NP-hard math opti…
Aemon was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Aemon has a team of 3 people according to Y Combinator's directory.
Aemon is currently listed as Active with a team of 3 in Y Combinator's directory.
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