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Francis Bouvier, Lightpanda, on Reliable AI — Interview with Alexy

Francis Bouvier ↗With Alexy KhrabrovNov 20252:06

Francis Bouvier, co-founder and CEO of Lightpanda, on reliable AI at AI By the Bay 2025. His first startup, an e-commerce analytics platform, retrieved twenty million web pages a day with one script per site; with AI the web can be instrumented as if it were an API. Reliable AI for him is AI that reaches the web and external content securely, which is why Lightpanda builds a local-first browser, and why he expects a dedicated one-browser-per-task stack.

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So I'm Francis Bouier. I'm the So I'm Francis Bouier. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Light Panda. So so co-founder and CEO of Light Panda. So so so yeah for me the I was working before so yeah for me the I was working before and it's my second startup and the first and it's my second startup and the first first one was an e-commerce analytics first one was an e-commerce analytics platform. So we were retriving around 20 platform. So we were retriving around 20 million web pages per day and and for million web pages per day and and for that on on a lot of different e-commerce that on on a lot of different e-commerce websites around the world and for that websites around the world and for that we had one script for each websites we had one script for each websites which makes sense and and if if I uh I which makes sense and and if if I uh I will have to do the same company today I will have to do the same company today I will do it completely differently will do it completely differently because with the AI you can just because with the AI you can just instrument the the web as it was an API instrument the the web as it was an API which is I think the ultimately goal. So which is I think the ultimately goal. So for me and especially for what we are for me and especially for what we are working on available AI is AI that can working on available AI is AI that can access to the web and to the external access to the web and to the external contents securely. So so uh well in as a contents securely. So so uh well in as a community there's well a lot of things community there's well a lot of things that we can do in in in our side. What that we can do in in in our side. What we're trying to do is to create a a we're trying to do is to create a a remote a local first uh local first web remote a local first uh local first web browser to be sure that we can access browser to be sure that we can access the web uh more securely in the in in the web uh more securely in the in in the next years. Well, at least for the the next years. Well, at least for the for the for the browser part I I know I for the for the browser part I I know I know I know well I think the future is know I know well I think the future is on very dedicated one browser per task on very dedicated one browser per task uh stack. So the the browser can live uh uh stack. So the the browser can live uh really close by the AI agents.

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