Polu: Enterprise AI needs frontier models rather than complex query routing
Stanislas Polu · Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu · Oct 11, 2023 · at 41:42
Stanislas Polu, co-founder and CEO of Dust, discusses whether enterprise AI platforms need specialized query routing across different LLMs or direct access to top frontier models.
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“Most of the tasks are pretty general, right? Most of the tasks are pretty like a human would do. And so you just want the best models. And as it happens today, the best models are before enclosed. So that's what you want.”
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