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Inside AI First Startups

Ali el Hassouni (MarvelX) · Niek Hoogenboom, Minimal AI (YC S25) · Robert Hommes (Moyai.ai)

6 Nov · Amsterdam

Three founders shared how AI first teams turn breakthroughs into real products, from model to production.

Most important takeaways:

- You’re product should become better when the models do.

- Defensibility: going deep beats going wide —> choose a vertical and optimise your models for that specific-context.

- Trade-offs between novelty vs. stability ——> switching your model always comes with stability costs; only switch when the improvements are significant enough to justify the variance caused by it.

Featuring Ali el Hassouni (MarvelX), Niek Hoogenboom, Minimal AI (YC S25), and Robert Hommes (Moyai.ai).

Ali el Hassouni, Niek Hoogenboom, Robert Hommes
Ali el Hassouni, Niek Hoogenboom, Robert Hommes