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General Instinct launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Inference Infrastructure for Physical AI

Batch
Y Combinator Spring 2026
Industry
Industrials
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

general-instinct.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

General Instinct on the record

What they shipped

  • Its own site describes it as: "Inference infrastructure for physical AI. Serve frontier models in real time, on any compute." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Bill Jiao, Founder/CEO: worked on Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins as a junior in high school, now building edge intelligence for physical AI. (source)
  • Guanming Wang, Founder/CTO: Building inference infrastructure for robotic world models. Former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning researcher with robotics research published at ICRA at age 17. Previously conducted robotics research at UCL and Tsinghua University. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-06-05: "Launch HN: General Instinct (YC P26) – Frontier models on edge devices" posted to Hacker News by guanming0717, 63 points and 16 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch General Instinct

  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • BetaList ↗
    Self-promotion allowedPaid
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • CoFoundersLab ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Invincible Product Hunters (Global) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Telegram channel readers; URL-first, attention-light
  • Launching Next ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • LaunchPedia ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories
  • MicroLaunch ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree, with paid options
    Audience: Directory listing surface; cold readers scanning categories

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