Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This week's YC Paper Club is focused on data. Three domain experts give talks to break down the challenges and frontiers of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Francois Chaubard: Why a whole night about data?
9:51 - Vincent Sunn Chen: The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents
28:44 - Volo Kuleshov: Inception: Diffusion Language Models for Production
40:26 - Shayne Longpre: ATLAS: Practical Scaling Laws for Multilingual Models