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The a16z consumer team tapped a grab bag of fellow early-adopters and AI enthusiasts to share their favorite products from a weird and wonderful year.
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An external "AI brain." Big swings in biopharma. Infinite games. A nuclear resurgence. "Faceless" creators. Google search challengers. Battlefield AI. We asked 50 a16z partners to preview one big idea that will spur innovation in 2025.
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[untitled] is building the new operating system for musicians. Users can upload, organize, and even edit their music on mobile with AI-powered features.
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I’ve been using ChatGPT like a daily journal to translate my innermost thoughts and feelings into a readily understandable format. I've been blown away by the results.
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We crunched the data to find out: Which gen AI apps are people actually using? And which are they returning to, versus dabbling and dropping?
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On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders behind some of the most popular AI creative tools, along with 16 artists,...
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Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
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Thousands of new AI-native companies are vying for attention. We crunched the data to find out: Which generative AI products are people actually using?
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We predict an Era of Abundance — lives will be enriched through new channels for creativity, along with new paths to self discovery and belonging.
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2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existed, and there's a lot to come.
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In April, the first viral AI cover dropped. More innovation in music and generative AI is coming, and here's what it might look like.
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Will AI take all the design jobs? Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI.
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We’ve entered the age of generative AI. When new technology captures consumer attention so quickly, it begs the question: Is there real value here?
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We worked hard this year to help tease apart what was hype/ what was real when it came to the buzz and noise around tech trends in the news this year (!) on our podcast show “16 Minutes.” To do so, we went beyond the hea...
Creativity
Every consumer can be an author, programmer, designer, artist, poet, movie producer, musician, and more. AI narrows the gap between idea and execution, enabling everyday consumers and creatives to do professional-grade work.
Featured Creativity Content
Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
In April, the first viral AI cover dropped. More innovation in music and generative AI is coming, and here's what it might look like.
2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existed, and there's a lot to come.
Arts & Crafts
a16z’s Consumer team spends a lot of time testing (and playing with) the latest AI-native tools. Here you’ll find some of their favorite recent demos, trends, tutorials, and works of AI art.
@venturetwins
Nov 21
@krea_ai You can also click to push the image to video, also on @krea_ai.
This was the first try using @LumaLabsAI!
@venturetwins
Nov 21
@omooretweets
Nov 14
Your next job interview may be with an AI.
Companies spend a ton of time and $ on interviews – often with low ROI. And, candidates suffer through long and painful processes.
New @a16z thesis from me + @seema_amble…AI voice interviewers👇
@omooretweets
Nov 14
@omooretweets
Nov 10
Sunday morning cartoons, starring @a16z consumer!
In the style of the OG builders: Phineas & Ferb 💪
See if you can identify each character…
(made with @krea_ai, @ideogram_ai, @runwayml)
@omooretweets
Nov 10
@omooretweets
Nov 09
Put myself in a film noir with @krea_ai‘s new Train feature 📽️
It’s now dead simple to spin up LoRAs and combine different characters, objects, and styles.
This whole process took <10 min!
@omooretweets
Nov 09
@venturetwins
Nov 07
🚨 New @a16z investment thesis: AI x parenting
Raising kids is one of our most challenging and important jobs.
Every parent needs support sometimes – but many can’t access it because it’s too inexpensive or inaccessible.
AI changes this. What we’re seeing 👇
@venturetwins
Nov 07
@venturetwins
Nov 05
Everyone is talking about @recraftai‘s image model, Red Panda – but the editing tools are underhyped.
There’s a “frames” feature to combine images (generated or uploaded) and text…and then re-render a cohesive design or change style.
Here’s me in season 5 of Succession ⬇️
@venturetwins
Nov 05
@venturetwins
Nov 03
Video style transfer test!
I love video stylization, but often find it hard to get a good result for any kind of complex motion.
I took videos from a recent trip and tested three tools (@runwayml, @DomoAI_, @GoEnhance) on four styles.
The results + takeaways:
@venturetwins
Nov 03
@venturetwins
Oct 30
My trip down the rabbit hole in mixed reality…
It’s actually incredibly hard to make – and highlights an interesting challenge in AI image generation.
@venturetwins
Oct 30
@venturetwins
Oct 01
Hey guys – big news, turns out I’ve been cake this whole time
@venturetwins
Oct 01
@omooretweets
Sep 28
I uploaded 200 pages of raw court documents to NotebookLM.
It created a true crime podcast that is better than 90% of what’s out there now…
And ends with the hosts debating the ethics of the genre 🤯
@omooretweets
Sep 28
@omooretweets
Sep 15
On this week’s @a16z podcast, @venturetwins and I reviewed the new AI features coming in iOS 18
Including the fact that you can now FINALLY record and transcribe calls
Plus extra smart photo search, what we hope to see from Siri, and more
@omooretweets
Sep 15
@venturetwins
Sep 15
Spent the last day playing around with @runwayml‘s new video-to-video tool It’s pretty cool on it’s own and in combination with other tools.
The first clip here is @ViggleAI, the second is @getcartwheel, and the last two are my camera roll.
@venturetwins
Sep 15
@venturetwins
Sep 08
Drag to move a face
Using the new @reshotAI product from @alexcarliera.
@venturetwins
Sep 08
@venturetwins
Sep 01
Virtual try-on with AI
These are real clothes that I’m applying by inpainting from a reference image.
It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good – on the beta version of @Photoshop
@venturetwins
Sep 01
@omooretweets
Aug 28
New AI genre – bring famous art subjects into the modern day
Presenting…American Gothic
@omooretweets
Aug 28
@venturetwins
Aug 27
Turning myself into a superhero ✨
This is such a simple but fun workflow: animate a photo of yourself with @ViggleAI and use @DomoAI_ to stylize.
@venturetwins
Aug 27
@omooretweets
Aug 26
I love Goodreads as a tracking app, but haven’t found it to be great at recommendations.
So I built myself a personalized AI reading engine, powered by Claude + my historical ratings.
It re-ranked my entire 500+ “to-read” list based on learnings from what I like 👇
@omooretweets
Aug 26
@omooretweets
Aug 26
Excited to announce our investment in @ViggleAI…
And my own accomplishment of becoming an Olympic pole vaulter (Raygun template next, please 🙏)
@omooretweets
Aug 26
@venturetwins
Aug 26
Announcing our investment in @ViggleAI!
Viggle makes it incredibly easy to put characters in videos or make them move.
Since launch in March, millions have used Viggle to make memes, dancing videos, acting clips – and more.
(see me, CEO Hang, and @kirbyman01 ⬇️)
@venturetwins
Aug 26
@stuffyokodraws
Aug 21
Used @ideogram_ai‘s 2.0 model to animate @a16z‘s logo yesterday: Ideogram is re-making the new workflow for every designer.
– Image & concepts @ideogram_ai
– Motion @LumaLabsAI @runwayml
– Sound effect @elevenlabsio
– Music @udiomusic
SOUND ON 🔊
@stuffyokodraws
Aug 21
@venturetwins
Aug 20
New tutorial: running multiple Flux LoRAs at once.
This is useful if you want to put multiple people in an image OR combine a person with a style.
These were made using my LoRA + a style LoRA on @replicate, instructions 👇
@venturetwins
Aug 20
@venturetwins
Aug 17
We’ve officially crossed the chasm on AI photos.
These would easily fool my friends & family members.
Generated in minutes on @replicate’s LoRA trainer for Flux (@bfl_ml).
@venturetwins
Aug 17
@omooretweets
Aug 13
I built an AI voice agent that called the DMV to schedule an appointment for me!
….and you can too. It took <30 minutes and two tools.
(And, it was incredibly satisfying to hear my AI deal with the DMV’s AI instead of sitting on the phone myself😂)
How I did it 👇
@omooretweets
Aug 13
@venturetwins
Aug 12
Can’t stop watching this 🔥 @elevenlabsio speech-to-speech demo from @ammaar.
Such a cool way to control the emotion, timing, and delivery of AI voice.
Instead of describing what you want a clip to sound like…just voice it!
@venturetwins
Aug 12
@venturetwins
Aug 10
Finally getting into video generation from 3D models.
It’s hard to do, but the consistency and control can’t be beat.
This one took four tools (+ heavy AI assist), workflow 👇
@venturetwins
Aug 10
@venturetwins
Aug 04
Wild that you can now get a 3D motion capture in five minutes on an iPhone 🤯
This is from @MoveAI_’s new single camera feature.
Will take to Blender or Unreal later to make a character!
@venturetwins
Aug 04
@omooretweets
Aug 01
The concept of “curation as creation” is one of the most powerful things to me about AI art
As @nickfloats says, ideas are free!
The cost of testing has gone to near zero, opening up a whole new range of creative processes (and a new generation of artists)
@omooretweets
Aug 01
@venturetwins
Jul 30
And finally, some 🔥 takes on the AI art debate.
“It’s the means to get somewhere, it’s not the final result….there’s always going to be naysayers, but that’s fine—we’re going to be ahead of them by a mile”
-Roustam Mirzoev
(more from @maxescu, @DaveJWVillalva, @GerdeGotIt)
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@RalFingerLP on how the power of the AI art community.
“When I upload a model, the creative way people utilize my stuff is so exciting.
I constantly refresh the site [@HelloCivitai] to see if anyone uploaded an image.”
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@KingWillonius on his creative process with AI tools.
“Sometimes it might take 20 times regenerating a song or an image.
But that’s the fun part of the process – a lot of times, you stumble upon something brilliant on accident. When that happens, it feels magical.”
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@venturetwins
Jul 30
At @a16z, we’re big believers in the future of AI art.
We couldn’t be more excited to share a recap of our first artist retreat hosted last month in NYC.
So grateful to all of the creatives and companies who spent time with us. Hear from them 👇
@venturetwins
Jul 30
@venturetwins
Jul 29
Simone Biles starring in the anime Olympics ✨
@venturetwins
Jul 29
@venturetwins
Jul 29
Have been playing around with @runwayml‘s new Gen-3 image-to-video.
There’s an impressive amount of movement, but it’s still not quite fully controllable with prompts.
Some unfiltered generations 👇
(starting with “river turns pink, giant wave crests”)
@venturetwins
Jul 29
@venturetwins
Jul 27
In honor of the Olympics:
“Justine in Paris” 🇫🇷
(keep watching to see where I end up)
And the workflow 👇
@venturetwins
Jul 27
@venturetwins
Jul 19
Turn yourself into an animated Pixar character!
It takes a single picture + two clicks on a free tool (@heyglif)
Link 👇
@venturetwins
Jul 19
@venturetwins
Jul 17
Real-time Live Portrait goes so hard.
It’s wild to animate a photo from a webcam video with zero latency.
Did this on @FAL!
@venturetwins
Jul 17
@venturetwins
Jul 13
Orange cat goes on vacation 🐈
(images from @ideogram_ai, animated with @Kling_ai)
@venturetwins
Jul 13
@venturetwins
Jul 12
Animal fashion show ✨
I try not to play favorites, but I might have to pick the last one…
(made by me, on @kling_ai)
@venturetwins
Jul 12
@venturetwins
Jul 11
Stumbled upon a crazy new app.
You upload 10-15 photos of yourself so it learns what you look like.
Then you can “retake” any photo – change your expression, fix closed eyes, tilt your head differently.
It produces a bunch of variations that all look like you!
@venturetwins
Jul 11
@venturetwins
Jul 10
Cool new model release:
PaintsUndo, which takes an image and outputs step-by-step frames of how to draw it.
It starts with a sketch and then fills in the colors, shading, and lighting.
@venturetwins
Jul 10
@omooretweets
Jul 06
Another big step in TikTok’s quest to replace Google for Gen Z…
The launch of gen AI-powered search highlights, that summarize (in text) key info across videos 👇
I can easily see these linking to products, reservations, etc. down the line
@omooretweets
Jul 06
@omooretweets
Jul 04
I used GPT-4o as a free, real time audio tour guide around London 🇬🇧
…and it was amazing!
Here’s how it works 👇
@omooretweets
Jul 04
@venturetwins
Jul 04
Someone made an AI camera that turns your pictures into different styles.
You can save the result as a live photo to watch the transformation 🪄
@venturetwins
Jul 04
@illscience
Jun 26
Music models are musical instruments
As both a DJ and a consumer investor, I’ve thought a lot about what’s the right product experience for generative music models.
I’ve landed on the concept of a “generative instrument” – you’re designing a next-gen guitar, synthesizer, drum…
@illscience
Jun 26
@venturetwins
Jun 18
Make any face talk with @hedra_labs
One photo + you generate or upload a voice (mine is from @elevenlabsio)
👏 on a cool launch today!!
@venturetwins
Jun 18
@venturetwins
Jun 18
Obsessed with the new @elevenlabsio video-to-sound effects feature.
Upload a video, get a soundscape that matches it 🪄
This is great for AI-generated videos, but I like to run it on my own videos for fun – listen to the Waymo shift into high gear.
@venturetwins
Jun 18
@venturetwins
Jun 17
Playing around with FaceFusion on Pinokio.
It’s wild how easy it is to turn yourself into any character now – this was my first try!
@venturetwins
Jun 17
@venturetwins
Jun 14
When your friend’s startup raises a big round (via @heyglif)
@venturetwins
Jun 14
All Creativity Content
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Will AI take all the design jobs? Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI.
-
On June 27th, the a16z team headed to New York City for the first-ever AI Artist Retreat at their office. This event brought together the builders behind some of the most popular AI creative tools, along with 16 artists,...
-
The a16z consumer team tapped a grab bag of fellow early-adopters and AI enthusiasts to share their favorite products from a weird and wonderful year.
-
An external "AI brain." Big swings in biopharma. Infinite games. A nuclear resurgence. "Faceless" creators. Google search challengers. Battlefield AI. We asked 50 a16z partners to preview one big idea that will spur innovation in 2025.
-
[untitled] is building the new operating system for musicians. Users can upload, organize, and even edit their music on mobile with AI-powered features.
-
I’ve been using ChatGPT like a daily journal to translate my innermost thoughts and feelings into a readily understandable format. I've been blown away by the results.
-
We crunched the data to find out: Which gen AI apps are people actually using? And which are they returning to, versus dabbling and dropping?
-
Artists are at the forefront of the AI platform shift. As new high fidelity tools emerge along the creative stack, technology is extending the impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, illustrators, photographers, and multimedia artists.
-
Thousands of new AI-native companies are vying for attention. We crunched the data to find out: Which generative AI products are people actually using?
-
We predict an Era of Abundance — lives will be enriched through new channels for creativity, along with new paths to self discovery and belonging.
-
2023 was a breakout year for AI video. At the start of the year, no public text-to-video models existed, and there's a lot to come.
-
In April, the first viral AI cover dropped. More innovation in music and generative AI is coming, and here's what it might look like.
-
We’ve entered the age of generative AI. When new technology captures consumer attention so quickly, it begs the question: Is there real value here?
-
We worked hard this year to help tease apart what was hype/ what was real when it came to the buzz and noise around tech trends in the news this year (!) on our podcast show “16 Minutes.” To do so, we went beyond the hea...