On Thursday, Dust, a French AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI researcher Stanislas Polu, secured a $16 million investment led by Sequoia Capital.
What Happened: Dust, which specializes in creating customized AI bots for businesses, plans to use the new funding to expand its operations into the U.S. market, as per a press release. The company’s software integrates with AI offerings from tech giants like OpenAI, Alphabet Inc., Anthropic, and Microsoft-backed Mistral AI, enhancing apps such as Slack with AI capabilities.
Polu, who envisioned the potential of generative AI applications even before the release of ChatGPT in ...