Aayush Gupta

umd '25
building (a16z speedrun alpha 001)
prev: founding engineer at (YC S25) & founder of

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@KatiaAmeri @speedrun

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@danylo_dev @speedrun @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer shhhhhh

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

spent the last 8 weeks in the @speedrun alpha program

It was incredible to build alongside some of the smartest people i've ever met.

Special shoutouts to @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer
for making the program goated.

featuring @pmarca

[speedrun @speedrun]

Introducing Alpha (A001) - 13 fellows who spent the last 8 weeks building their companies with us in SF.

This is our earliest-stage program for students, dropouts, and recent grads with the conviction to run straight into building a startup.

Most started Alpha as solo founders, still figuring out what exactly to build. Within 8 weeks, they went all in on building, talking to customers, growing their teams, and even getting their first revenue through the door.

Meet our founders ↓

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@FilipFWH @andrewchen @KatiaAmeri @JordanMazer @speedrun Captain ��

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@NatKokoromyti @speedrun @cyberneticphysx offsite in greece when

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@pinakpaliwal @speedrun @andrewchen @KatiaAmeri @justmazer my goat

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@sean_n_wu @pmarca @andrewchen @KatiaAmeri @justmazer so much aura big bro

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@TrevorAbbott01 @speedrun @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer thank you goat

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@sean_n_wu @speedrun @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer nah youre big bro

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@speedrun @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer Accidentally nuked all the comments 🥀

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@pinakpaliwal @speedrun @KatiaAmeri @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer yessir! We got to run football next to the Bart back

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@KatiaAmeri @speedrun @andrewchen @meientc @The_Pangean @joegarciaisme @justmazer getting this framed and putting it on my wall

[Oruk @OrukLabs]

The Oruk Speech API is live.
One versioned API for speech models that understand more than words.

Oruk offers the leading speech emotion API on the market, ranking #1 across 64 systems with 77.6% accuracy and a 0.810 Macro F1 on a 64,384-clip benchmark.

Upload prerecorded audio and get:
transcripts
emotion labels
speaking-style labels
affect analysis
segment-level tagged text

Most speech APIs stop at transcription.

Oruk is built for the layer after that:

What did the person mean?
How did they say it?
Were they frustrated, uncertain, urgent, confident, hesitant, calm?

That signal matters in contact centers, meetings, research calls, healthcare, sales, support, media, and any product where voice is the interface.

Start free. No card required.

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@AkashInJune andrew cupps

[Bryan @bryan_houlton]

Introducing Horizon from @0rinlabs: the first long-horizon learning benchmark made from real agent logs

- SOTA is 21% on the hardest section
- 7-35M tokens of real agent history per task
- Models are hardly getting better on the hardest tasks
- Humans can score 100%

(1/7)

[Aayush Gupta @AayushFromSpace]

@waynesutton @orangesliceai @dexbythirdlayer @lopus_ai @convex @Cursor @OpenAI This is sick

[Wayne Sutton @waynesutton]

Join YC’s first-ever hackathon for growth engineers.

If you’re technical and building growth or GTM tooling, apply for a spot at the link below.

With @orangesliceai, @dexbythirdlayer, @lopus_ai, @convex, @cursor, and @openai.

[Armaan Jain @Armaan_Jain123]

Introducing Roids!

a free & open-source S.O.T.A design toolkit for your AI agents. It let's you choose between multiple design choices.

Roids scored 96.3% in internal-trust-me-bro benchmark!!

get your agent on roids now! (link in comments)

[Alex DeNuzzo @xdenuzzo]

i'm hosting a yc darty next saturday. we'll have a private chef, dj, games, and a massive fucking bubble machine.

last time I personally grilled >40 lbs of meat.

dm for an invite.

w/ @modaflows @danylo_dev @pranavbedi @legalos @tanagram_