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Glade (YC S23) — Build games at the speed of thought

Glade is helping everyone build games with AI. GladeCore powers hundreds of studios and developers with locally powered AI NPCs that include TTS, STT, emotional tuning, and RAG.

Glade is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Build games at the speed of thought. The founder listed is Daniel Fang (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 28, 2023).

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Glade

New accelerator entry · 2023-06-28 · the record

Summer 2023
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2023
Announced2023-06-28
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B
SectorsGenerative AI, Consumer, Entertainment, Gaming, AI
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://gladestudio.ai/

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Glade is helping everyone build games with AI. GladeCore powers hundreds of studios and developers with locally powered AI NPCs that include TTS, STT, emotional tuning, and RAG. GladeKit is Cursor for Games - an AI agent that lives directly in your game engine and builds games for you.

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