Agents & the $40M Bet on Multiplayer AI
From Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community) by Demetrios
June 12, 2026 · 1h 21m
About this episode
Stanislas Polu discusses the enterprise AI agent platform Dust and its implications for the future of work.
Stanislas Polu is Co-Founder & CTO of Dust — the enterprise AI agent platform used by 51,000 workers at 3,000+ companies. Before Dust, he spent three years on OpenAI's research team under Ilya Sutskever, working on mathematical reasoning in language models, and prior to that was an engineer at Stripe. He brings a rare combination of frontier AI research and product-building experience to the enterprise agent space. Agents & the $40M Bet on Multiplayer AI // MLOps Podcast #384 with Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder & CTO of Dust 🤖 What is Dust? — How Dust enables teams to build and deploy AI agents powered by internal company data, and why the "multiplayer AI" model is winning in enterprise. 🧠 From OpenAI Research to Startup Founder — Stanislas's journey from studying mathematical reasoning in LLMs under Ilya Sutskever to co-founding an enterprise AI company in Paris with Gabriel Hubert. 🚀 The $40M Series B — What Dust is building with fresh funding, the bet on human-agent collaboration as the future of work, and what "multiplayer AI" actually means in practice. 🔄 The Outer-Loop Era — Stanislas's framework for thinking about where AI agents create the most value: not just…
People in this episode
Host: Demetrios
Guest: Stanislas Polu
Topics covered
- AI agents
- enterprise AI
- multiplayer AI
- Model Context Protocol
- human-agent collaboration
- funding in AI startups
Keywords
- Dust
- AI agents
- MCP
- multiplayer AI
- enterprise workflows
- Series B funding
- human-agent collaboration
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Organizations: Dust, OpenAI, Stripe, MLOps
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