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Dust

INFRA · APIS
Velocity8.8

AI agent platform for building and deploying LLM-powered workflows and assistants.

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Dust is widening the agent-platform surface: multimodal tools, enterprise audit, model breadth.

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◆Current state
Dust is shipping at a fast clip on three fronts that together define a serious agent platform: model breadth (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.3, refreshed Anthropic lineup), agent capability (MCP tools can now return images the agent can actually see, plus context compaction for long runs), and enterprise readiness (workspace audit logs streamable to Datadog, Splunk, or any HTTPS sink). Integrations are getting versioned upgrades on the side (Asana MCP v2, Gmail labels and archive). The product is moving from 'chat with an agent' toward 'run agents in production with observability and multimodal I/O.'
◆Where it's heading
Two clear directions: deeper enterprise GTM via SIEM-grade audit, and a more capable agent runtime that can see, remember, and act inside third-party SaaS. The MCP-image release in particular treats Model Context Protocol as a real I/O surface rather than a text-only RPC, which is where the broader MCP ecosystem is heading. Frequent model rotations suggest Dust is positioning as model-agnostic infrastructure rather than locking into one provider.
◆Prediction
Next moves likely lean into the same arc: more MCP integrations with action verbs (write/delete/transition states), expanded multimodal returns (audio, structured documents), and finer-grained admin controls layered on top of the audit foundation - tool-usage policies, per-agent egress rules, or approval workflows.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Gemini 3.5 Flash available on Dust

    Gemini 3.5 Flash joins Dust's model roster. Continues the model-agnostic positioning - users get another fast option for cost-sensitive workloads without changing platform.

  2. 1d ago

    Grok 4.3 upgrade and Anthropic model refresh

    Routine model refresh: Grok 4.3 upgrade plus Anthropic model migrations. Reinforces the cadence of staying current across providers rather than betting on a single lab.

  3. 9d ago

    Asana MCP integration moves to V2

    Asana MCP integration moves to V2 with required action from workspace admins. Maintenance-flavored but signals that Dust's MCP integrations are now versioned products with breaking upgrades, not one-off connectors.

  4. 13d ago

    Audit Logs for Enterprise Workspaces

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    Enterprise workspaces get full audit logs in the admin panel, plus real-time streaming to Datadog, Splunk, or any HTTPS endpoint. This is the kind of observability that unlocks security and compliance review for regulated buyers.

  5. 14d ago

    Agents can now see images returned by MCP tools

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    Dust's new conversation file system lets agents actually interpret images returned by MCP tools - JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP - instead of only acknowledging the file existed. Real multimodal tool I/O over MCP.

  6. 14d ago

    Context Compaction: Keep Your Agents Sharp in Long Conversations

    Context Compaction automatically summarizes older turns so long-running agent conversations don't hit context limits. Solves a real reliability problem for production agents but is becoming table stakes across the agent-platform category.