More startups than ever are developing artificial intelligence technology or generative AI products at Y Combinator,which kicked off its Winter 2023 Demo Day on Wednesday.Across the entire cohort, 96 companies have AI or generative AI tags in their descriptions on the YC website. Morethan 80% of those are based in the Bay Area.The generative AI tag shows up in YC's database as far back as 2017, but the category has only recently exploded —the current batch has 54 companies identified in the category and close to two-thirds of them are in the Bay Area.For more details about startups in categories other than AI in the Winter 2023 batch, click here.

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Here are all of the Bay Area startups and founders developing AI or generative AI products:

AI

1. AlphaWatch AI (San Francisco) — Jackson Chen and Varun Varahabhotla
2. Ariglad (San Francisco/Canada/Denmark) — Ali Avci and Sophie Wyne
3. Atri Labs (San Francisco) — Darshita Chaturvedia and Shyam Swaroop
4. BabylonAI (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Rangel Milushev and Ahmad Roumie
5. Blocktool (San Francisco) — Nicolas Bustamante and Edouard Godfrey
6. Bluebirds (San Francisco) — Rohan Punamia and Kunal Punera
7. Chart (San Francisco/New York) — Fatih Celikbas
8. CorgiAI (San Francisco/Singapore) — Saif Farooqui
9. Double (Redwood City) — Wesley Yue and Gonzalo Espinoza Graham
10. Extend (San Francisco) — Kushal Byatnal
11. Hadrius (San Francisco/New York) — Allen Calderwood, Thomas Stewart and Som Mohapatra
12. Haven (San Francisco) — Juan Burgos, Satya Koppu and Pranav Neyveli
13. Intently (San Francisco) — Mikalai Melchanka, Slava Solonitsyn and Dmitry Starodubtsev
14. JustPaid.io (Mountain View/Netherlands) — Anelya Grant, Daniel Kivatinos and Vinay Datta Pinnaka
15. Latent (San Francisco) — Rishabh Jain and Sri Somasundaram
16. Layup (San Francisco) — Badal Jain, Michael Lemm and Ryan Xue
17. MagnaPlay (San Francisco/Brazil) — Pedro Esteves and Paulo Rodrigues
18. Narrative (San Francisco) — Suchit Dubey and Akshit Khurana
19. Orchid (San Francisco) — Joseph Pomianowski and Daniel Varga
20. Pair AI (San Francisco) — Parth Detroja and Jason Goodison
21. Plutis (San Francisco/New York) — Kamil Ali and Asim Hirji
22. PoplarML (San Francisco) — Evan Chu and Danna Liu
23. pyq (San Francisco/New York/Seattle) — Emily Dorsey and Aman Raghuvanshi
24. Rollstack (San Francisco/New York/Paris/Dubai/Morocco) — Saad Bahir, Nabil Jallouli and Younes Jallouli
25. Rubber Ducky Labs (San Francisco) — Georgia Hong and Alexandra Johnson
26. Scanbase (San Francisco/Los Angeles) — Jeffrey Lange and Steve Roger
27. Squak (San Francisco) — Eitan Borgnia, Elijah Sorey and Preston Zhou
28. Unstatiq (San Francisco) — Sachin Jaishankar and Nishanth Singaraju
29. Untether Labs (San Francisco) — Lucas Della Bella and Aditya Sharma
30. Vocode (San Francisco) — Kian Hooshmand and Ajay Raj

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Generative AI

1. AiFlow (San Francisco) — Josh Gardner and Nicholas Manske
2. Anarchy (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Matthew Mirman and James Spoor
3. Avoca (San Francisco) — Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava
4. Baseplate (San Francisco) — Andrew Luo and Ani Gottiparthy
5. BerriAI (San Francisco) — Krrish Dholakia and Ishaan Jaffer
6. Buildt (San Francisco) — Yang Li, Alistair Pullen and Sam Stenner
7. Cardinal (San Francisco/Austin) — Mor Sela and Wiz
8. Chima (San Francisco) — Kiara Nirghin and Nikhara Nirghin
9. Clueso (San Francisco/India) — Akash Anand, Neel Balar and Prajwal Prakash
10. CodeComplete (San Francisco) — Lydia Ding and Max Lu
11. Coldreach (San Francisco) — Hankel Bao and Xiaohan Shen
12. Decoherence (San Francisco/Seattle) — Rishi Bhuta and Will Stith
13. Defog AI (San Francisco/Singapore) — Medha Basu and Rishabh Srivastava
14. EzDubs (San Francisco) — Amrutavarsh Kinagi and Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy
15. Fabius (San Francisco) — Andy Day and Neil Madsen
16. GradientJ (San Francisco/New York/Austin/Miami) — Oscar A. Martinez and Daniel Bassett
17. Helicone (San Francisco) — Scott Nguyen, Barak Oshri and Justin Torre
18. Iliad (San Francisco/Pittsburgh) — Matthew Turnshek
19. Inkeep (San Francisco/New York) — Nick Gomez and Robert Tran
20. Kyber (San Jose/New York) — Sav Gadoo and Arvind Sontha
21. Lasso (San Francisco) — Gautam Bose and Lucas Ochoa
22. Lightski (San Francisco) — Richard Hwang and Hansen Qian
23. Linum (San Francisco) — Manu Chopra and Sahil Chopra
24. Lume (San Francisco) — Nicolas Machado, Robert Ross and Nebyou Zewde
25. OfOne (Oakland) — Will Edwards and Adam Proschek
26. OpenSight (San Francisco/Sunnyvale) — Jeff Huang, Victoria Wan and Ruoni Wang
27. Outerbase (San Francisco/Pittsburgh) — Brandon Strittmatter and Brayden Wilmoth
28. Parabolic (San Francisco) — Shub Viragi
29. Persana AI (San Francisco) — Sriya Maram and Rush Shahani
30. Play.ht (Mountain View) — Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel
31. Rubbrband (San Francisco) — Abhinav Gopal, Darren Hsu and Jeremy Lee
32. Second (San Francisco) — Eric Rowell
33. Sidekick (San Francisco/Canada) — Ayan Bandyopadhyay and Jason Fan
34. SpeedyBrand (San Francisco/Canada) — Ayush Jasuja, Jatin Mehta and Ranti Dev Sharma
35. Stack AI (San Francisco) — Bernardo Aceituno and Toni Rosinol
36. Syncly (San Francisco/Boston/Korea) — Joseph Lee, Jongsoo Keum and Kwan Yoon
37. Truewind (San Francisco) — Tennison Chan and Alex Lee
38. Turntable (San Francisco) — Wally Gurzynski, Justin Leder and Ian Tracey
39. UpTrain AI (San Francisco/India) — Sourabh Agrawal, Vipul Gupta and Shikha Mohanty
40. Vellum (San Francisco/New York) — Sidd Seethepalli, Noa Flaherty and Akash Sharma
41. Waveline (San Francisco/Switzerland) — Kyrill Hux, Nicolas Muntwyler, Jan Schnyder and Stan Wohlwend
42. Wild Moose (San Francisco/Israel) — Yasmin Dunsky, Roei Schuster and Tom Tytunovich
43. Yuma (San Francisco/Singapore) — Guillaume Luccisano
44. Zenfetch (San Francisco/New York) — Akash Mandavilli and Gabe Villasana