About
Igor holds a degree in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich and has spent over five years working in machine learning, including deep learning research with published work at top-tier conferences. He previously worked as a software engineer at the Swiss stock exchange.
Igor Susmelj @isusmelj
The price of intelligence keeps collapsing. DeepSeek V4 Flash is now nearly 20x cheaper than Gemini Flash 3.6 and around 100x cheaper than leading OpenAI and Anthropic models. Soon, using an LLM to classify text may be cheaper than training a classifier. https://t.co/bxDyoUxEgU
Jul 31, 2026 Β· β₯ 3
Igor Susmelj @isusmelj
When new backbones drop, everyone asks the same question: how well do they transfer? We compared three on ADE20K segmentation using LightlyTrain: π’ LingBot: 0.465 mIoU π΅ EUPE: 0.456 β« DINOv3: 0.449 LingBot comes out on top π And yes, all three are supported in LightlyTrain. https://t.co/rpBLKPUxZ0
Jul 30, 2026 Β· β₯ 2
Igor Susmelj @isusmelj
Open source doesnβt just release models. It distributes the optimization problem to thousands of smart people. Kimi K3 is already being pushed onto Apple Silicon and lower-specced hardware. Interesting project I saw on Hacker News today: https://t.co/QbjrKd7CeZ
Jul 29, 2026 Β· β₯ 1
Founder at LightlyYC S21
Intro paths
Igor went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) β any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, General Partner at Y Combinator β the partner who ran Lightly's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β
In turn, Igor can intro founders to Lightly's investors below.