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Jonathan Swerdlin, cofounder and CEO, and Mark Hyman, MD, cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of Function Health join Vijay Pande, general partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner of a16z Bio + Health.
The time has come to stand up for Little Tech. Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech. We believe American technology supremacy, and the critical role that Little Tech startups play in ensuring that supremacy, is a first class political issue on par with any other.
Jiaming Song and Anjney Midha discuss Luma’s Dream Machine 3D model that shows abilities to reason about the world across a variety of aspects.
Here’s where AI agents and software can have the most immediate impact on your business, and make you more efficient and productive.
Pros and cons of existing NFT royalty designs, plus two new approaches to royalties that leverage incentive mechanisms.
Jonathan Bush, founder and CEO of Zus Health, and Chris Severn, cofounder and CEO of Turquoise Health, join Julie Yoo, general partner, and Colin Rom, head of public policy for a16z Bio + Health.
Generative AI is working its way into everything, and firms want to show they are implementing this new tech — especially those that serve the accounting market.
BNY’s Akash Shah on the company’s approach to adopting AI and what advice he would give to fintech startup founders.
Alasdair Monk discusses how generative AI is changing how developers — and the those building for developers — interact with the tools of their trade.
a16z General Partner Angela Strange, Plaid CEO Zach Perret, and Marqeta CEO Simon Khalaf discuss how AI and fintech will shape the future of banking.
Senate Bill 1047 is designed to apply to models trained above certain compute and cost thresholds. It also holds developers legally liable for the downstream use or modification of their models.
The most impactful way to fix healthcare is through improving the consumer experience, which has been largely ignored to date. In today’s modern world where you can order groceries, buy flight tickets, and wire money from your phone, taking care of yourself and navigating the healthcare system remains impossibly hard.
AI is poised to become more consequential than the internet, but federal regulators, influenced by Big Tech, appear intent on squashing its potential.
In this episode, originally recorded for the a16z Podcast, host Steph Smith interviews Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind’s VP of Research focused on AI for science. They are joined by a16z Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pand…
A web3 with a16z podcast covering governance from the history of democracy to AI oversight boards at Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, and more.
The TxO grant program will facilitate entry and success in the technology industry and startup ecosystem by providing financial support for skill development, internship placement, and other networks designed for career advancement.
In this AI + a16z episode, Inngest CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown discusses the reality of running AI agents and multistep AI workflows in production.
Chronis Manolis, SVP and Chief Pharmacy Officer of UPMC Health Plan, joins Julie Yoo, general partner, Daisy Wolf, investment partner, and Will Shrank, venture partner, of a16z Bio + Health.
Finding predictable revenue in a flexible usage-based pricing model can be difficult. Frameworks for how to make it easier.
In this AI + a16z podcast episode, Mohammad Norouzi shares his story of building influential text-to-image models at Google and cofounding Ideogram.
In this episode, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha breaks down everything the tech community needs to know about SB-1047.
Understanding how pricing fundamentals shift when you’re launching additional products can help you capture the value those products create more quickly.
Brooke Boyarsky Pratt, founder and CEO of knownwell, joins Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health.
We see three phases in the evolution of adopting GenAI in marketing: the development of marketing copilots, the introduction of marketing agents & the rise of an autonomous marketing team.
Experts from a16z crypto discuss startup pricing strategy, consumer psychology, and business economics on web3 with a16z podcast.
5 strategies for finding product-market in web3, from new approaches to customer research to building incentive systems.
Now is the time to reinvent the phone call. Thanks to gen AI, humans will spend time on the phone only when a call has value to them.
As Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound capture the healthcare spotlight, we’ve developed a series of episodes that go beyond the headlines and take you into conversations with the specialists. Our first guest is Carolyn Jasik, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health.
We stitched together two episodes from the a16z Podcast, featuring Anjney Midha interviewing Arthur Mensch (Mistral) and Stefano Ermon (Stanford).
The latest crypto regulation news, legislation, and frameworks released by regulatory agencies and bodies — curated by our policy team.
Optimism’s Jing Wang discusses open source foundation stewardship, crypto superchain scaling, and more on web3 with a16z podcast.
AI can own B2B workflows by converting them into a feature or capability within the product. This is the potential that we believe SynthAI yields.
This is a 12-month program for early-career engineers and researchers with expertise at the intersection of hardware and software.
Vineeta Agarwala, MD, PhD, joins Luke Timmerman’s The Long Run podcast on stage at the Life Science Innovation Northwest Conference.
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Matt Bornstein discuss the state of the generative AI market, about 18 months after it really kicked into high gear with the release of ChatGP…
a16z General Partner Alex Rampell recently spoke to CEO of Rocket Companies Varun Krishna about his newest role, AI, and the future of real estate.
In May’s Fintech newsletter, we introduce our new podcast “In the Vault,” where we share exclusive conversations with financial industry leaders.
The stakes are high. The opportunities are profound. From the creation of new medicines to bolstering national defense, this is our vision for the AI-enabled future.
Security-startup founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on generative AI.
Mature code-generation technology, coupled with advanced generative AI image models, has shortened the journey from idea to fully operational application.
Kim Branson, PhD, SVP and Global Head of AI and Machine Learning for GSK, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they talk about how AI has improved drug discovery and development, as Kim walks through all the ways AI can be deployed in the lab.
There’s likely a whole category of non-AI companies and products that can FINALLY exist *because of the productivity gains of AI.*
In 2009 Discord cofounder and CEO, Jason Citron, started building tools and infrastructure for games. Fast forward to today and the platform has over 200 million monthly active users. In this episode, Jason, alongside a1…
In this AI + a16z episode, a16z’s Zane Lackey and Joel de la Garza discuss how generative AI and LLMs could effect profound change in cybersecurity.
AI-native consumer products should consider user retention a core metric, and the following boosters can help founders build it.
Human nature fears the unknown, and with the rapid progress of AI, concerns naturally arise. Uncanny robocalls, data breaches, and misinformation floods are among the worries. But what about security in the era of large…
Dig into some of the most important must-knows and to-dos for founders and cultural leaders, including athletes, entertainers, and executives, when building a relationship.
The U.S. industrial base faces a series of risks that compromise our ability to remain globally competitive. AI is uniquely suited to tackle these complex challenges.
The latest crypto regulation news, legislation, and frameworks released by regulatory agencies and bodies — curated by our policy team.
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Socket’s Feross Aboukhadijeh and a16z’s Joel de la Garza discuss the open-source software supply chain.
Behind Jolt — the most performant zkVM to date — with its a16z crypto research and engineering team makers on the web3 with a16z podcast.
In recent years, the AI landscape has seen huge advancements, from the release of Dall-E 2 in April 2022 to the emergence of AI music and video models in early 2024. While creative tools often steal the spotlight, AlphaF…
a16z Fintech connects ambitious technology founders with financial services leaders who recognize the power of generative AI.
In this In the Vault episode, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti about fintech, financial services, and GenAI.
In this In the Vault episode, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with Jeff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about industry trends and AI.
In this In the Vault episode, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Sixth Street Partners’ Marty Chavez about his storied career and AI’s promise.
Tom Hale, CEO of ŌURA, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner, and Daisy Wolf, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health.
We have provided many resources in this series for this stage of your business journey. We’d like to wrap up by focusing on how to manage debt post-closing.
A framework for understanding the legal, commercial, and operational risks of token launches, along with a few strategies for mitigating them
A few practical rules for launching a token. Every web3 project is different, but these best practices are almost always worth considering.
Principles for knowing when to launch a token (and when to hold off) for web3 builders
Guidelines for readying a web3 project for a token launch, from creation to custodians
Over 3,700 companies applied to a16z’s SPEEDRUN. In this episode, we meet the founders pushing the boundaries of what games can be.
Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty discusses the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
a16z’s Alex Immerman chats with Mercury cofounder and CEO Immad Akhund and BILL CEO René Lacerte about fintech’s future.
Philip Tagari, Chief Scientific Officer of insitro, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health.
Senator Todd Young (R-IN) speaks with a16z General Partner Martin Casado about the importance of open innovation and American leadership in AI, and why we need to support AI research at all levels — from the classroom to the war room.
The latest crypto regulation news, legislation, and frameworks released by regulatory agencies and bodies — curated by our policy team.
Anjney Midha shares his thoughts on how hardware for AI might evolve over the years to come as we place more emphasis on AI inference workloads.
Jennifer Li is being promoted to General Partner at a16z. She will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infra.
The gaming industry stands as a pioneer of cutting-edge technologies, ushering in innovations like GPUs, virtual and augmented reality, physics engines, and immersive multiplayer experiences.
In this episode, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen, General Partner at a16z Games, dig into why a16z was compelled to establish a dedicated games fund. They explore the origins of tech pessimism, effective engagement with government in tech, its significance for the gaming community, the ongoing AI revolution, and even what Marc himself would build today if he didn’t have his hands full.
We have just raised $7.2B for American Dynamism ($600M), Apps ($1B), Games ($600M), Infrastructure ($1.25B), and Growth ($3.75B). This marks an important milestone for us.
Vijay Pande, founding general partner of a16z Bio + Health, chats with the builders (and siblings) behind Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.
Field notes from 11th Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) in Athens on April 10, 2024, which focused on zk research, SNARK design, and crypto.
IYK cofounder Chris Lee talks about merging digital and physical worlds through chipped goods on the web3 with a16z podcast.
The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on artificial intelligence across a broad swath of areas, from infrastructure to business implications.
Naveen Rao of Databricks joins a16z’s Matt Bornstein and Derrick Harris to discuss where we’re at in terms of large language model (LLM) adoption.
This episode of the AI + a16z podcast features a panel discussion from back in February, focused on the state — and future — of open source AI models.
To seize a future of energy abundance, we must simplify the generation, transmission, and consumption of electricity; this entails decentralizing the grid.
From air-defining radar and electronic systems that helped the Allies win World War II, the origins of Silicon Valley are deeply rooted in government and defense. In today’s episode, we get the chance to revisit that relationship with the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks. Deputy Secretary Hicks has spent decades of her career focused on defense policy and in her keynote address from a16z’s second annual American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C., you’ll get an inside look into the priorities of the DoD and how it views its past, present, and future.
Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore explains how ecosystem-led growth can improve customer acquisition, account expansion, and access to new markets by leveraging partners and partner data.
Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to talk through the grand challenges facing healthcare AI today.
We are pleased to welcome Erin Price-Wright as our newest American Dynamism partner.
The latest crypto regulation news, legislation, and frameworks released by regulatory agencies and bodies — curated by our policy team.
In this month’s newsletter, we gauge where AI solutions are emerging in financial services, Reuters’ AI war chest, and the big real estate settlement.
“If America is going to be America in the next one hundred years, we have to get this right.” – Ben Horowitz
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke speaks with a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz about scaling tech startups, leadership, business strategy, and more.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks with a16z crypto founder Chris Dixon about FTX, crypto in politics, company building, and more.
3 financial service giants cornered the market on data at the dawn of the digital age. What can founders learn from them?
This episode features interviews with payor and provider leaders about what they’re seeing and how they’re thinking about AI. Guided by Julie Yoo, general partner, and Jay Rughani, investment partner at a16z Bio + Health, you’ll hear from the executives about how they’re utilizing AI, the KPIs they use to gauge effectiveness, and what they consider to be a good partnership.
GenAI will deliver massive value to companies, but it can be difficult to account for its costs. How we’re thinking about monetizing new genAI features.
In 2024, enterprise leaders are doubling down on their genAI investments. 16 developments for founders to keep in mind to capture this new opportunity.
The stakes are high. The opportunities are profound. This is the future of AI, as told by the people building it.
CEO of Quora Adam D’Angelo discusses how building infrastructure for creators can democratize AI, in conversation with a16z’s David George.
Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health, joins the Software Engineering Daily podcast to talk about innovation in biotech and healthcare, the biotech startup landscape, the impact of AI, and much more.
The latest crypto regulation news, legislation, and frameworks released by regulatory agencies and bodies — curated by our policy team.