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An Ex OpenAI Researcher on the Real Risk of Frontier Models

The Generalist · Mario Gabriele

23 June 2026 · Startups & Building

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Yash Patil is the 23-year-old founder and CEO of Applied Compute, a $1.3 billion company helping businesses train custom AI models on their own data: smaller, cheaper, and purpose-built for the work they actually do. Before founding the company, Yash dropped out of Stanford and spent two years at Op

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