The Model-Agnostic AI Platform Betting That No Single Lab Will Win

In this discussion at Startup School Paris, Dust co-founder Stanislas Polu reflects on his path from Stripe to OpenAI and why he and his co-founder decided to build their company in France. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 — Intro 01:09 — From Stripe to OpenAI to Founder 02:49 — Why Stan Left OpenAI 03:46 — What Dust Actually Does 04:07 — What Work Looks Like in 3 Years 05:10 — Where the Thesis Was Right (and Wrong) 07:05 — The Horizontal vs. Vertical Debate 09:15 — Model Agnostic as a Moat 10:49 — How