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Thesis

Automate AI research

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveB2BAI

What they do

Problem

AI research and model discovery are slow, manual, and hard to scale systematically.

Solution

Thesis provides an autonomous AI research lab that automates and scales the process of designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models as an intelligent search problem.

Who it's for

AI researchers and machine learning teams at labs and companies building new models and breakthroughs.

Founders

Sergio Charles
Co-Founder & CEO

Thesis will automate AI research. Prev: AI R&D at Google X, Nvidia and Stanford's AI Lab, working with Andrew Ng and Chelsea Finn. Stanford B.S. Math & CS, M.S. Stats

Luigi Charles
Founder

Betting the farm that AI will become meaningful in the discovery of new science. Second time founder. Previously scaled stablecoin payments infrastructure from zero to billions. Columbia CS & Math.

Open roles 1

Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco, CA, US · Full-time · $120K - $170K · 0.75% - 2.00%
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