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

Y Combinator Blog Ryan Choi October 30, 2026

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After 10 years at Google Research and DeepMind, Yair Alon joined Poetiq to build an AI that improves itself.

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