Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2024

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his thoughts on how hardware for artificial intelligence might evolve over the years to come as we place more emphasis on AI inference workloads. And then now we’re at this next phase of massive transformers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether it’s industry debates over business models and the actual definition of open , or governments actively discussing how to regulate models, seemingly everyone has an opinion on what it means for AI models to be open. The good, the bad, and the ugly. But to be fair, there’s a reason for this.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

While it may seem ironic, AI solutions may be our best answer to the decaying personalization and humanity of care in the US; as Vijay wrote in 2021, “technology can make human healthcare more human.” To be clear—the goal in creating new AI tools is not to replace clinicians. Technology is emerging for AI to augment and enable care.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 10, 2024

Intro We have long believed that AI will fundamentally reshape biotech and healthcare, positioning us at the brink of an AI-driven Industrial Revolution. Put more boldly, when will the majority of new drugs be designed with AI? We recently wrote about the “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI in enterprise healthcare.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Lead by Starseed CEO Katie Bomi Son’s ´Pulitzer AI’ Paves the Way to Global Market with Multilingual Translation Capabilities PR or Publicity remains a critical aspect for start-ups, serving as a gateway to attracting investments and expanding user bases.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. AI today 1. But there will be more breakthroughs because now all the AI scientists in the world are working on making the stuff better. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As we enter the AI era, we predict the benefits to consumers will be as profound as the technology is magical; what indeed are the implications for software that can write poetry, listen emphatically, compose music, or provide dating advice? Below you’ll find our thoughts and observations regarding the state of consumer AI.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 28, 2024

It would be natural to assume that if you don’t have a billion dollars or the resources of a large company, you can’t build AI models of your own. These 25 YC companies have built AI models that do things that just a couple of years ago would have been impossible. Exa : A search engine/API for AI and AI developers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 22, 2024

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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. On the most surface level, we believe AI will help users do their existing work more efficiently. What can be abstracted away with AI?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. Could AI summarize those? But what about reviewers?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. Or maybe you’re still determining how generative AI will benefit your customers, and right now it’s a nice-to-have for certain users.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’re excited to announce the second batch of a16z Open Source AI Grant recipients. This program is designed to support a thriving open source ecosystem around modern AI. We provide grant funding (not an investment) to developers and small teams who are building critical pieces of the open source AI stack.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

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. They also talk about the AI startup they each wish would walk through the door.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. Over the next 3 to 5 years, we expect some existing marketplaces will pivot, some will go out of business, and some will be supercharged with the help of AI. One example here is Pietra’s AI product design tools.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is attracting a significant level of investment, including in the gaming space. Titan AI, a new mobile games studio, raised over $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by Berkeley SkyDeck.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) spoke with a16z General Partner Martin Casado at the American Dynamism Summit 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. As part of that, you had this Senate AI Insight forum.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Apple CEO Tim Cook pushed back a bit at the notion that the company was behind in AI on yesterday’s Q4 earnings call with investors, as he highlighted technology developments that Apple had made recently that “would not be possible without AI.”

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Grammarly-Harris Poll Study encourages businesses to not be left behind in implementing generative AI As generative AI spreads across business sectors, inclusive of small and large businesses, management and workers are seeing its value in their daily work. The Report estimated that generative AI saves approximately $1.6

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Grammarly-Harris Poll Study encourages businesses to not be left behind in implementing generative AI As generative AI spreads across business sectors, inclusive of small and large businesses, management and workers are seeing its value in their daily work. The Report estimated that generative AI saves approximately $1.6

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As we’ve written previously , the generative AI revolution in games will cause the price of content to drop dramatically, going effectively to zero in some cases. In our view, AI has the potential to enable entirely new categories of games and we believe that Series AI is poised to lead the way.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This growth is fueled by AI workloads. ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.” “In Azure, we expect revenue growth to be 26% to 27% in constant currency with an increasing contribution from AI. Google, on the other hand, declined after having plateaued last quarter.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 5, 2024

They addressed the top concern for CISOs: the impact of generative AI on enterprise security. Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions: 1. How are CISOs planning their budgets with respect to generative AI?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers? What’s the scale of the opportunity that AI presents? Which interfaces will win out?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Intel, intent on making bigger moves in the market for AI-powered enterprise software, is spinning out a new platform company with the backing of Boca Raton, Florida-based asset manager and investor DigitalBridge.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. In other words, buyers aren’t seeking AI for AI’s sake.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

This episode features interviews with payor and provider leaders about what they’re seeing and how they’re thinking about AI. Julie and Jay also authored an in-depth guide to commercializing AI in healthcare based on these interviews, available here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It’s been 9 months since ChatGPT was released and 7 months since it became the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million monthly active users , ushering in a new era of generative AI. But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? Who might be the next “big winner”?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

In this presentation from the American Dynamism Summit , a16z General Partner Martin Casado lays out the case for AI as a driving force behind incredible advancements in technology, creativity, and the human experience — not to mention efficiency improvements on par with, if not greater than, those delivered by the internet and the microchip.

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