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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.
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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.
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a16z is excited to invest in Decagon, an AI agent that automates customer support for a business, and to have led their seed round.
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In this AI + a16z podcast episode, Mohammad Norouzi shares his story of building influential text-to-image models at Google and cofounding Ideogram.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Security-startup founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on generative AI.
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Mature code-generation technology, coupled with advanced generative AI image models, has shortened the journey from idea to fully operational application.
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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.
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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.
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Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty discusses the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
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The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on artificial intelligence across a broad swath of areas, from infrastructure to business implications.
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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.
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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.
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We are pleased to welcome Erin Price-Wright as our newest American Dynamism partner.
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a16z's Zane Lackey and Joel de la Garza discuss the state of security in 2024 and a top CISO concern: the impact of GenAI on enterprise security.
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Tennr understands unstructured inputs, applying AI reasoning and decision-making to perform complex end-to-end workflows.
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The release of the latest Ideogram.ai model is a massive step forward for image models. We're excited to lead their Series A.
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Tigris has built a globally available S3-compatible distributed object-storage service that makes the application developer’s job as simple as possible.
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Upstash powers caching and messaging for tens of thousands of production applications across four different products, including many AI applications.
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Doppel is building a next-generation approach for detecting and removing fraudulent accounts and phishing attacks across various channels.
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Luma AI is building fast, high-quality, and deployable foundation models that let anyone create interactive 3D assets based on text prompts.
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Distributional is building a platform for robust and repeatable testing of AI and machine learning models so teams can push to prod confidently.
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a16z announces its second batch of a16z Open Source AI Grant recipients. This cohort focuses mainly on LLMs and visual AI models.
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Mistral is at the center of the open source AI developer community. This is the most promising path to achieve robust and trusted AI systems.
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Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in the coming year.
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No one knows how generative AI will play out from a product perspective. The speakers at our Connect/Enterprise event shared their thoughts and experiences.
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The speakers at our Connect/Enterprise event share their experiences across a range of company-building topics, from product strategy to COVID-19.
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The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear discussion around the real-world impact of this revolution, on industries ranging from gaming to design, and the considerations around alignment along the way.
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The AI Revolution is here. In this episode, you’ll learn what the most important themes that some of the world’s most prominent AI builders – from OpenAI, Anthropic, CharacterAI, Roblox, and more – are paying attention to. You’ll hear about the economics of AI, broad vs specialized models, the importance of UX, and whether we can expect scaling laws to continue.
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Insights from leaders at OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Databricks, Character.AI, Roblox, insitro, and Figma on where we are, where we're going, and the open questions for building the next wave of AI.
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To date, a handful of large companies have captured the value created by advances in AI. With generative AI, that’s changing.
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As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Here she tells Martin Casado the story behind the release of ChatGPT—and what it tells us about the future of AI and human-machine interactions.
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Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, explain the data wars happening inside and outside enterprises and how they could impact the evolution of LLMs.
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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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Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how can AI be used to improve AI.
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explains how AI copilots are keeping developers longer in a flow state and why AI copilots more broadly could be the start of an industrial revolution for knowledge work.
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Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation.
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a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
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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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Many digital-first companies have been propelled by generative AI. However, selling these digital products globally is not a straightforward undertaking. Here's how to simplify the cross-border selling experience, get in front of the right customers, and build long-term value.
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A reference architecture for the LLM app stack. It shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by AI startups and tech companies.
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A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.
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Those who complain about hallucinations miss the point. A dispersion of outputs (including hallucinations) will unlock a whole new category of product design: probabilistic products.
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At this early stage in generative AI, technologists and product pickers will likely have the biggest impact on which companies emerge as winners.
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Founders and execs from Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Gong, and Yubico share their experiences and advice on growing enterprise startups.
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Our 2023 report aims to break through the noise of price movements to track the signals that matter and the progress of web3 technology.
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When computers were first built, each new application had to be programmed specifically for each chip. This was very complicated for developers and, as a result, the companies that created operating systems to simplify t...
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We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications. Despite some enormous technological advances and the presence...
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We're starting to see the very early stages of a tech stack emerge in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Hundreds of new startups are rushing into the market to develop foundation models, build AI-native apps, and...
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From entertainment franchise games to the precision delivery of medicines, small modular reactors to loads of AI applications, here are 40+ builder-worthy pursuits for 2023.
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Why AI models will replace artists long before they'll replace programmers
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Nitin Natarajan is the deputy director of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), and has extensive experience in the cybersecurity space, including overseeing critical infrastructure for the U.S. Nation...
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These are edited highlights from a recent Clubhouse discussion among Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power, a16z partners Katherine Boyle and Marc Andreessen, and Not Boring newsletter author Packy McCormick. The dialogue...
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A good deal of web3 security rests on blockchains' special ability to make commitments and to be resilient to human intervention. But the related feature of finality – where transactions are generally irreversible – make...
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One way to view technological advancement is through the lens of hardware: as new needs and use-cases emerge, chip manufacturers design special-purpose GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs optimized for specific functions and software...
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The Ethereum blockchain is a public ledger that anyone can inspect.
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The Data50 are the 50 bellwether data startups across the most exciting categories in data, such as AI/ML, ELT and orchestration, and data observability.
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As an NFT collector, you should care about on-chain provenance. The most authentic provenance for an NFT is when it is initially minted directly from a creator's wallet or a smart contract that the creator owns. However,...
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There are people in the industry who seem to be everywhere you look. Zane Lackey has always been one of those people. He's perhaps most well known as the cofounder and CSO of Signal Sciences, which was acquired by Fastly...
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This is an edited excerpt from Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution, a Substack “memoir” from Steven Sinofsky about his time at Microsoft during the rise of the PC. This post includes parts fr...
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I am excited to announce that we have promoted Sarah Wang to General Partner on the Growth investing team. When we started the Growth Fund in 2019, we set out to back founders executing on unusually big visions for emerg...
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Today’s episode is all about crypto security — that is, the new mindsets and the new strategies for storing crypto assets safely while also allowing holders control and access. (As a reminder, none of the following should be taken as investment advice, please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information.) We’ve covered security trends more broadly a ton in our content, which you can find at a16z.com/security, as well as crypto-related trends including NFTs, and the creator and ownership economies. But as more people enter crypto lately — thanks to the boom in NFTs, decentralized finance, and much more — we share specific best practices and options for securing crypto as well as discussing how it all fits this next evolution of the internet: web3. Our expert today is a16z crypto data scientist Eddy Lazzarin, who joins host Zoran Basich. He covers practical approaches ranging from passwords to crypto wallets and what users can do; the evolution of crypto briefly; and the big picture mindset shifts involved here as well.
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In today’s episode we have two short segments, both on bioscience topics.
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In the past year, we have seen companies of all sizes and across all industries make significant adjustments to their tech stack as technological trends, which were already underway before the COVID-19 pandemic, crested...
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As more and more B2B companies become product-led, how quickly and precisely a company identifies new customer needs and ships product ultimately determines its success. To develop product ideas faster and get shorter ti...
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DigitalOcean went public today, and I am so proud of the team’s journey to get to this incredible milestone. The story of my first meeting with DigitalOcean founders Ben and Moisey Uretsky in 2014 is one of the most memo...
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These frameworks help map the user journey to figure out the right product tiers, how to differentiate them, and how to price them.
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This first appeared in the monthly a16z enterprise newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest in enterprise and B2B.
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How ransomware works, from the anatomy of a hack to how the groups operate; the role of nation-states, insurers, and regulators; and what to do if your stuff is taken hostage...
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When you hear stories about Amazon's famous "invention machine", we often hear about things like: Memos, six pages exactly and no powerpoints at al! Or, the idea of "work backwards from the press release". But what's lost is the how, as well as the broader narrative of how all companies and leaders, not just Amazon and Bezos, can define their ways as they scale. After all, Amazon was once a small startup, too. So in this episode -- the very first podcast for the new book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon -- the authors share firsthand observations and experiences from being in "the room" where it happens, from AWS, Kindle, and Prime to more importantly, the leadership principles, decision making practices, and operational processes that got Amazon there. Can other startups do the same?
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In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes, we cover the SolarWinds hack, one of the largest known hacks of all time... and the ripple effects are only now starting to be revealed, especially given latest news reports from the U.S. government. What actually happened, when does the timeline really begin? We help cut through the headline fatigue of it in this "anatomy of a hack" teardown -- the who, what, where, when, how -- from the chess moves to the step by step long game.
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AS THE INTERNET has evolved over its 35-year lifespan, control over its most important services has gradually shifted from open source protocols maintained by non-profit communities to proprietary services operated by la...
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The rise of developers -- as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class -- is a direct result of "software eating the world", since every company is a tech company (whether they know it or not). Developers are therefore the key to solving business problems and to thriving not just surviving, argues Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, in his new book, Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century. Lawson shares hard-earned lessons learned, mindsets, and tactics -- from "build vs. buy" to "build vs. die", to the art and science ("mitosis") of small teams -- for leaders and companies of all sizes and kinds.
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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...
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What was the most significant or overlooked trend in enterprise technology in 2020? We asked our a16z enterprise team as well as a few of our founders and leaders in the industry...
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Security is countercyclical: the business tends to boom while broader macro conditions deteriorate. But amid this year’s pandemic — including remote work and economic uncertainty for many — specific security trends (data...
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As we look back at 2020 and forward to 2021, we round up our top stories on AI in business, in breakthroughs, in practice. Be sure to subscribe to our enterprise newsletter for monthly updates across all the areas we cov...
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We're back to covering multiple items on our show 16 Minutes -- which covers the news, occasional explainers, and teases apart what's hype/ what's real -- as well as where we are on the long arc of innovation.
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In this episode of our show 16 Minutes -- where we talk about the headlines, and where we are on the long arc of tech trends -- we cover the news around Google DeepMind's AlphaFold system for predicting the 3-D structure of proteins outperforming 100 teams across 20 countries in the 14th Community Wide Assessment on the CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) challenge. The challenge, which takes place every other year (over several months) tracks progress, key metrics, and state-of-the-art on predictive techniques for protein folding.