The Outer-Loop Era

Talk presented at dotAI 2025: https://www.dotai.io/ Who is Stanislas Polu? Stanislas is the co-founder of Dust, a platform that enables enterprises to build and deploy AI agents powered by internal data (Salesforce, GitHub, GSuite) and actions (MCP). Previously, he co-founded TOTEM in 2011, a data analytics company acquired by Stripe in 2014. He then joined OpenAI as a research engineer (2019-2022) on Greg Brockman’s team, tackling AI reasoning and co-authoring papers with Ilya Sutskever on formal mathematics and automated theorem proving.