Diana Hu: Series B AI startups are orchestrating and arbitraging models
Diana Hu · The Truth About The AI Bubble · Y Combinator · Dec 22, 2025 · at 7:01
Diana Hu is a Group Partner at Y Combinator discussing architectural trends and founder behaviors across scaling AI startups.
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“Startups are doing as well, they are actually arbitraging a lot of the models. I had some conversations with a number of founders where before they might have been loyalists to, let's say, OpenAI models or Anthropic, and I just had some conversations recently with them, and these are founders that are running larger companies like Series B level type of companies. With AI, they're actually Abstracting all that away and building this orchestration layer where perhaps as each new model release comes out, they can swap them in and out, or they can use specific models that are better as certain things for just that.”
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