Marco Mascorro

Latest Content

• DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs

  Guido Appenzeller and Marco Mascorro

  a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Marco Mascorro demystify how DeepSeek works and explain what the era of reasoning models means for AI.

• From Prompt to Product: The Rise of AI-Powered Web App Builders

  Justine Moore, Yoko Li, Gabriel Vasquez, Marco Mascorro, and Bryan Kim

  What products are builders using to make websites and web apps with AI? A deep dive into how these products work, their limitations, and the features on the horizon. 

• Investing in WaveForms AI

  Justine Moore, Marco Mascorro, and Martin Casado

  WaveForms AI is training an end-to-end audio language model with the goal of solving the speech Turing test — an AI that feels like talking to a human.

• Investing in Cursor

  Matt Bornstein, Marco Mascorro, Rajko Radovanovic, and Martin Casado

  Cursor is a fork of VS Code that’s heavily customized for AI-assisted programming, with loads of features designed to integrate AI into developer workflows.

• Investing in Black Forest Labs

  Anjney Midha, Marco Mascorro, Rajko Radovanovic, and Justine Moore

  We're excited to announce our investment in Black Forest Labs (BFL), which is building the world’s best open visual models for developers.