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  • Why AI Will Save the World

    Marc Andreessen

    No, AI won’t kill us all, take our jobs, or otherwise ruin society. The threat of not aggressively pursuing global AI dominance, however, is considerable. A counterpoint to the moral panic that is currently influencing AI policy.

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  • The Economic Case for Generative AI

    Martin Casado and Sarah Wang

    It has typically been difficult for startups to reach escape velocity using AI as a core differentiator. But with generative AI, we’re already seeing use cases with orders-of-magnitude improvement in time, cost, and performance over previous AI waves.

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Founders at the Forefront

Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas Character.AI

A neural language model chatbot that enables open-ended conversation with characters you create.

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Edo Liberty Pinecone

An external vector database where developers can store and search relevant contextual data for LLM apps.

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Mohammad Norouzi Ideogram

A text-to-image generative AI system with applications in design, photography, entertainment, and more.

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Daphne Koller insitro

A drug discovery and development company that uses machine learning to improve how medicines are created.

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Amjad Masad Replit

A collaborative software-building platform and an AI-powered code-generating tool.

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Munjal Shah Hippocratic AI

A generative AI company building large language models for healthcare to combat the healthcare worker shortage.

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Ben Firshman Replicate

A platform for hosting and running machine learning models in the cloud.

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Suchi Saria Bayesian Health

An AI co-pilot that gives clinicians real-time predictive care signals to improve healthcare outcomes and manage costs.

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Cody Coleman Coactive AI

An AI platform that makes it easy to search, filter, and analyze image and video data.

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Kristen Fortney BioAge

A biotech company using AI to map human aging and extend healthy lifespan.

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Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs

A research and deployment company developing realistic, versatile AI audio software for creators and publishers.

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Jakob Uszkoreit Inceptive

A deep learning and biology company developing Biological Software, the molecules at the core of novel RNA medicines.

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The Builders: a16z's AI portfolio

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