# The $1B Company Fixing AI’s Software Bottleneck

**Published:** November 2, 2026
**Author:** Y Combinator
**Source:** YouTube — Y Combinator AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/the-1b-company-fixing-ai-s-software-bottleneck

Every time a developer writes code, [music] they have to run a bunch of checks to make sure that nothing is broken. That process is called CI and Blacksmith writes infrastructure to run those really, really fast. We've grown 20x in in the last [music] year. We recently raised…

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**Tags:** #Microsoft #YouTube

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