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Is it time to hand over cybersecurity to machines amidst the exponential rise in cyber threats and breaches?

a16z is excited to invest in Decagon, an AI agent that automates customer support for a business, and to have led their seed round.

In this AI + a16z podcast episode, Mohammad Norouzi shares his story of building influential text-to-image models at Google and cofounding Ideogram.

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.

Security-startup founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on generative AI.

Mature code-generation technology, coupled with advanced generative AI image models, has shortened the journey from idea to fully operational application.

The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on artificial intelligence across a broad swath of areas, from infrastructure to business implications.

We are pleased to welcome Erin Price-Wright as our newest American Dynamism partner.

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.

Tennr understands unstructured inputs, applying AI reasoning and decision-making to perform complex end-to-end workflows.

The release of the latest Ideogram.ai model is a massive step forward for image models. We're excited to lead their Series A.

Doppel is building a next-generation approach for detecting and removing fraudulent accounts and phishing attacks across various channels.

Luma AI is building fast, high-quality, and deployable foundation models that let anyone create interactive 3D assets based on text prompts.

Distributional is building a platform for robust and repeatable testing of AI and machine learning models so teams can push to prod confidently.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To date, a handful of large companies have captured the value created by advances in AI. With generative AI, that’s changing.

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.

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.

Will AI take all the design jobs? Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and AI.

Cofounder and CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei unpacks how far can scaling laws take us and how can AI be used to improve AI.

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.

Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation.

With generative AI, we’re already seeing use cases with orders-of-magnitude improvement in time, cost, and performance over previous AI waves.

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.

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.

A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.

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.

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...

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...

Why AI models will replace artists long before they'll replace programmers

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...

An almost invisible hairline crack exists at the foundation of tech giants’ towering strength in AI. There is an opportunity for startups to build technology that better harnesses market forces.

At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software. AI is showing remarkable progress on a range of difficult computer science problems, and the job of software developers – who now work wit...

From movie recommendations to medical diagnoses, people are increasingly comfortable with AI making recommendations, or even decisions. However, AI often inherits bias from the datasets that train it, so how do we know w...

0/ Is there an Enterprise Margin Crisis? It's not uncommon to see software startups with surprisingly low margins (30-40%). I believe there is a broader trend going on here, which I explore in this thread.

Not all automation is created equal. Often “automation” is just a synonym for programming—i.e., writing a script or program to accomplish a task that would otherwise have to be done manually. And, when applied in the con...

Our work is changing -- what we do, and how we do it. How are automation and digitization changing decision-making. and what kind of new tools does that mean we will need? In this video, a16z deal partner Jad Naous looks...

Editor’s note: TripActions has rebranded as Navan.

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A broad trend in technology that’s been spoken about at length is the increase in data that our systems have to handle, and an immediate corollary is a commensurate increase in the amount of data and logs our systems pro...

What happens when companies grow exponentially in a short amount of time -- to their organization, their product planning, their behavior towards change itself? In this hallway conversation, a16z partners Steven Sinofsky...

We've met with hundreds of Fortune 500/ Global 2000 companies, startups, and government agencies asking: "How do I get started with artificial intelligence?" and "What can I do with AI in my own product or company?"

A lot of machine learning startups initially feel a bit of "impostor syndrome" around competing with big companies, because (the argument goes), those companies have all the data; surely we can't beat that! Yet there are...

From the significance of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo wins to recent advances in "expert-level artificial intelligence" in playing an imperfect/ asymmetric information game like poker, toys and games have played and continu...

Shortly after joining Andreessen Horowitz, I started hearing excitement around one of our seed portfolio companies, SigOpt. Much of it was coming from our Executive Briefing Center, a resource we have that helps our port...

Who has the advantage in artificial intelligence — big companies, startups, or academia? Perhaps all three, especially as they work together when it comes to fields like this. One thing is clear though: AI and deep learning is where it’s at. And that’s why this year’s newly anointed Andreessen Horowitz Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science is Fei-Fei Li [who publishes under Li Fei-Fei], associate professor at Stanford University. Bridging entrepreneurs across academia and industry, we began the a16z Professor-in-Residence program just a couple years ago (most recently with Dan Boneh and beginning with Vijay Pande).

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The world's most valuable company, Apple, made a number of seemingly incremental announcements at its most recent annual developer's conference (WWDC) -- that Apple Pay is coming to the web; that Siri is being opened up...

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Technology has always been a force in how we live, work, and play; only now it's accelerating and compounding in unexpected ways. But just because we don't know exactly what form that tech will take (sharing homes on Air...

There's no question automation is taking over more and more aspects of work and some jobs altogether. But we're now entering a "third era" of automation, one which went from taking over dangerous work to dull work and now decision-making work, too.

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AJ Shankar was busy working on his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley in the prestigious Programming Systems Lab, where he published a number of important papers in OOPSLA and PLDI. As a big fan of side...

Chris Dixon joins Shane Parrish on this Knowledge Project podcast, which "is aimed at acquiring wisdom through interviews with fascinating people to gain insights into how they think, live, and connect ideas."

I was introduced to Paula Long the CEO of DataGravity about the same time I arrived at a16z (nearly four years ago). Every time a new storage deal was pitched to us, I would call Paula to get her thoughts. Given my own b...

The democratization of software development means you don't need an engineering degree to do things developers would otherwise do. Optimizely is just one example of a new enterprise software franchise born of the interne...

One of the holy grails in the storage market has been to deliver a piece of software that could eliminate the need for an external storage array. The software would provide all the capabilities of an enterprise-class sto...

It doesn’t happen often, every 10 to 15 years or so, but we are in the throes of the reordering of the $4 trillion corporate IT market. And depending on which side of that transformation you sit, this is either the best...

Alan Bradley: [holds up his pager] I was paged last night.

I have so much respect for people who fought online criminals for eBay and PayPal. There hasn’t been a set of websites more highly targeted by cybercriminals and fraudsters. The founders of Silver Tail, Mike Eynon and L...

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