Nov 22, 2025
Ep.11/14 Summary of the Y Combinator 2025🎉Transforming Data Science: Meet Rao, Your AI Coding Assistant
The YC Launch for Lotas presents a secure, AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) designed specifically for data scientists. Their first product, Rao, is an AI coding assistant embedded into RStudio, aimed at RStudio’s roughly 5 million users. It addresses the lack of coding assistants in RStudio by integrating AI that is context-aware of local files, variables, and terminals. Rao…