About
Brooke Hopkins previously led evaluation infrastructure at Waymo. She is now building evaluation systems for AI agents.
Brooke Hopkins @bnicholehopkins
Last weekend we opened up the Coval office for a @ycombinator Startup School afterparty alongside our friends at @phonely_ai and @tryhelium. The room was full of early stage founders and people who are just starting to figure out what they want to build. Everyone was so curious https://t.co/5AXbODFIQD
Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 5
Brooke Hopkins @bnicholehopkins
@OpenAI So Cascade or Speech to Speech is still an outstanding question, but its one that should be answered by your product team, not just the engineers. Read more: https://t.co/F1n0iZhQAH
Jul 13, 2026
Brooke Hopkins @bnicholehopkins
@OpenAI Speech to Speech is beginning to carve out a niche by offering features that a cascade model can't. The best example of this is Google Gemini's newest translation model that doesn't just translate what you said, but the way you said it. In a Cascade model we lose that emotional
Jul 13, 2026
Founder at CovalYC S24
Intro paths
Brooke went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Harj Taggar, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Coval's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Brooke can intro founders to Coval's investors below.