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Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era.
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI.
Theo Jaffee and Sophia Puccini speak with Balaji Srinivasan and Steven Glinert about the shifting balance of power between nations, networks, and technology.
For the last few years, visual AI has mostly been judged by its pixels. The better the final image or video looked, the better the model seemed.
Theo Jaffee speaks with Steven Sinofsky about the next generation of personal computing and the growing role of AI-native hardware.
Clem Delangue joins MTS to discuss the global open-source AI landscape, the current large language model bubble, and the future of consumer robotics.
a16z leads Exa's Series C
We are living in a golden age of AI-powered creativity. In the last two years, the quality of generative models has gone from interesting to extraordinary across image, video, audio, music, and voice. The raw capability...
The Memento and the Machine
Matt Bornstein speaks with Scott Chacon, cofounder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler, about why Git's user interface has barely changed since 2005, how GitButler is rethinking version control for both humans and AI agents,...
Jack Neel speaks with Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit, about how AI is making it easier than ever to build and ship software without a technical background. They discuss Replit's rise from a browser-based coding tool to a pla...
It is very clear that the practice of software engineering is being upended by AI. A large, growing portion of all new code is now written by AI agents. AI models are also becoming indispensable for understanding large c...
This episode originally aired on the Latent Space Podcast. swyx and Alessio Fanelli speak with Marc Andreessen about the arc of AI from its origins in 1943 to today's breakthroughs in reasoning, coding agents, and self-i...
Everyone knows supply chain attacks are a problem. That’s not the point.
a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania, cofounder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, World, and cofounder of Merge Labs. World is building the largest real human network, a proof-of-human layer for the...
a16z leads Deeptune's Series A
Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they explore why hardware, industria...
Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update their predictions in a precise, mathematically predictable way a...
In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 cities and involved in clearing over...
a16z invests in Nexthop's $500M Series B
Enterprise AI data agents are failing without a robust context layer, driving demand for modern data ontologies that unify business definitions, messy data systems, and tribal knowledge to power accurate, autonomous analytics.
Since the early days of digital design, one requirement has always remained constant: good design needs to work across every context in which it’s used. Different screens, sizes, formats and surfaces all demand the same...
Turning Tetris into a coding and optimization loop shows how GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, Grok 4.1, and Sonnet 4 differ in long-horizon reasoning, strategy adaptation, intervention timing, and behavior under edge cases and shifting state.
Today, our friends at fal released the State of Generative Media Report, a deep-dive into the remarkable progress we're seeing in generative media. fal has a particularly privileged vantage point: their inference engine...
Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel speaks with a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen about why AI may finally break a 50-year productivity slump—and what's at stake if America doesn't win the race. They discuss where value wil...
a16z leads Shizuku AI's seed round
Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal sit down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado on WSJ’s Bold Names to ask whether the AI spending boom is a bubble waiting to burst. Martin explains why the f...
Vibe coding promises to democratize software development in America, but today it primarily serves technical power users. The next wave of consumer AI products will determine whether software creation truly reaches the mainstream.
Netlify's CEO reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five times last year's rate—and 96% aren't coming from AI coding tools. They're everyday people accidentally building React apps through ChatG...
Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, Andreessen Horowitz general partners Jennifer Li and Yoko Li speak with...
The AI industry has historically been bottlenecked by training.
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference layer that makes large AI models faster, cheaper, and more reli...
2025 was the year of video. AI-generated ads went mainstream. Launch videos from seed stage startups got millions of views. Video podcasts and interviews exploded.
Matt Bornstein promoted to a16z General Partner
In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing. He explains why current constraints are driven less by technic...
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington. While Silicon Valley obsesses over AGI apocalypse scenarios, Be...
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actually programmable. While everyone obsesses over whether LLMs wil...
This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived through multiple tech waves as a founder, researcher, and investor, and in...
AI is moving from chat to action.
A detailed look at the 2025 consumer AI landscape in the US, comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI across adoption, retention, paid growth, and product innovation.
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the company where Ryo is now Head of Design. In this episode, a16z Gener...
a16z co-lead's Mirelo's $45M Seed Round
Originally published on the a16z Infra podcast. We're resurfacing it here for our main feed audience.
GPUs are the backbone of the AI industry. They run the majority of training and inference workloads today, and advances in GPU technology consistently drive improvements in frontier model capabilities. In this sense they...
Global AI retention benchmarks are shifting as foundational cohorts emerge and frontier models gain traction. Insights from OpenRouter's State of AI report reveal how workload-model fit drives long-term adoption across markets.
Naveen Rao is cofounder and CEO of Unconventional AI, an AI chip startup building analog computing systems designed specifically for intelligence. Previously, Naveen led AI at Databricks and founded two successful compan...
Fei-Fei Li is a Stanford professor, co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and co-founder of World Labs. She created ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep learning revolution.
A global analysis of AI usage, reasoning models, and agentic workflows powered by data and insights developed with OpenRouter’s 100 trillion token ecosystem.
In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its platform across models, pricing, and infrastructure, and how it is shi...
Epoch AI researchers reveal why Anthropic might beat everyone to the first gigawatt datacenter, why AI could solve the Riemann hypothesis in 5 years, and what 30% GDP growth actually looks like. They explain why "energy...
AI’s “bitter lesson” demonstrates that scaling compute now drives progress, enabling small teams to turn financial and computational resources into powerful systems.
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the groundwork for the innovations transforming industries today.
Web search for the past 30+ years was built for humans. Now it’s being rearchitected for agents.
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built.
ElevenLabs CEO and co‑founder Mati Staniszewski joins Jennifer Li to explain how the team ships research‑grade AI at lightning speed—from text‑to‑speech and fully licensed AI music to real‑time voice agents—and why voice...
ElevenLabs, an AI voice company based in Europe with teams in London, Warsaw, and San Francisco, exemplifies how geography and culture shape innovation. Its global approach to voice technology bridges research and product development, creative collaboration, and enterprise-scale deployment.
AI isn’t just changing software, it’s causing the biggest buildout of physical infrastructure in modern history.
Google DeepMind’s new image model Nano Banana took the internet by storm.
From Netscape to VMware, Raghu Raghuram has been at the center of nearly every major inflection point in enterprise technology.
Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, joins a16z’s Marc Andreessen and Erik Torenberg to discuss the new world of AI agents, the future of programming, and how software itself is beginning to build software.
Last year, it seemed like every week a new frontier video model would one-up its peers and push our expectations. We learned to simply expect relentless improvement on measurable benchmarks: longer video output, sustaine...
AI agents are emerging as the next computing platform, reshaping how software works at its core. For the first time, systems can act on our behalf. This transformation will redefine how we work across every digital surfa...
Augusto Marietti, CEO and cofounder of Kong, has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley history.
a16z leads Reducto’s $75M Series B to reimagine OCR for the AI era. Reducto transforms static documents into live, structured, editable digital objects—turning contracts, forms, and filings into data AI can reason over.
Nathan Labenz is one of the clearest voices analyzing where AI is headed, pairing sharp technical analysis with his years of work on The Cognitive Revolution.
From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the needle on scientific progress?
Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.
Generative AI is revolutionizing software development, with AI coding assistants and agentic tools transforming how 30 million developers plan, code, review, and deploy software worldwide. From productivity gains worth trillions in global GDP to a fast-evolving startup ecosystem, the AI coding revolution is reshaping the future of programming and software creation.
Raghu Raghuram joins a16z as Managing Partner and a General Partner
For as long as software has existed, we’ve treated code as something carefully crafted by engineers: designed, typed out line by line, and managed in repositories and workflows built entirely for humans. That view is alr...
Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later.
Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy, capturing trillions of dollars of value in the process.
Periodic Labs raised $300M, led by a16z, to build AI scientists and autonomous labs that generate real-world data for breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, and materials.
China has rapidly surpassed global competitors in robotics, building a complete supply chain and innovation ecosystem that positions it as the emerging superpower in physical AI. Without urgent regulatory reform and allied industrial coordination, the United States risks losing its ability to compete in the defining technological and strategic race of the century.
What comes after vibe coding? Maybe vibe researching.
Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ripple effects could reshape AI, cloud, and the global chip race.
Phota Labs raises a $5.6M seed round led by a16z to create generative AI that ensures every photo retains both the likeness of the person and truth of the moment.
We’re former founders leveraging our know-how to invest in entrepreneurs building at every level of the AI stack: from foundation models, core AI systems, and developer tools, to next-gen cloud, data, and security systems.
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