Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted | TechCrunch

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  • Pig.dev, a startup that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop.
  • In May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem.
  • The idea is to allow the agent to offload repeated tasks to the Muscle Mem service so the agent can focus on reasoning for new problems and edge cases.
  • Another company — and another YC alum — that is tackling that for the browser is called Browser Use.
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