yCombinator · 30 October 2026

How Yair Alon went from building Portrait Mode at Google to founding researcher at Poetiq

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Yair Alon left a decade at Google Research and DeepMind to join Poetiq (YC S26), a startup building an AI optimizer that can improve other AI systems and itself. The piece profiles his career transition, daily work, and what early-stage execution looks like.

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