Emergence

The New Physics of Business — Garry Tan, Y Combinator

Jul 17, 2026 · 21:08

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan argues founders must build AI-native companies that treat AI as a workforce, not auto-complete, to achieve 400x productivity. He details how skill files (Markdown documents) act as employees, a resolver table as an org chart, and a company brain (like his open-source GBrain) as the memory layer that selects the right context for each task. Tan cites YC's Winter '25 batch where 25% of companies had 95% AI-generated code, and portfolio companies Emergence and Retail reaching $15M ARR with 15 people and $60M with 40 respectively. His core message: never do one-off work—always "skillify" completed tasks into reusable skills, so the organization compounds knowledge daily rather than waking up with amnesia.

Emergence Launch: AI Agents and the future enterprise: Dr. Satya Nitta

Jul 31, 2024 · 5:41

Dr. Satya Nitta introduces Emergence, an R&D-led AI company spun out of IBM Research with talent from Google Brain, Alexa, and Meta, focused on advancing AI agents for enterprise. The company's core product, the Orchestrator Agent (G8, launching in August), plans, acts, and verifies across multiple LLMs and agents to automate complex workflows like claims processing. Emergence also develops Agent E, an open-source web agent that tops the Web Voyager benchmark by autonomously controlling the web. Nitta emphasizes the company's R&D on self-improvement agents, AI planning and reasoning, and agent-oriented programming, with applications in enterprise RPA and document processing. The goal is to enable enterprises to build and deploy autonomous agents that drive productivity by operating software and web browsers.