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In this post, we look at how AI is increasing VSaaS revenue per customer by enabling vertical SaaS companies to take on tasks previously too complex for software.
Every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents.
Pylon provides a single view of customer issues, wherever they are happening — Slack, Teams, chat widget, ticket forms, or emails.
Today, thanks to AI, we are witnessing potentially the greatest transmutation in history. Software becomes labor. It’s the new E=MC2.
In this episode, we cover the recent data breach of nearly 3B records, including a significant number of social security numbers. Joining us to discuss are security experts Joel de la Garza and Naftali Harris. Incredibly...
With LLMs and AI-enabled data infrastructure, common sales activities will be redefined and completely new seller workflows will emerge.
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.
a16z is excited to invest in Decagon, an AI agent that automates customer support for a business, and to have led their seed round.
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.
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.
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.
Jennifer Li is being promoted to General Partner at a16z. She will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infra.
The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on artificial intelligence across a broad swath of areas, from infrastructure to business implications.
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.
Tigris has built a globally available S3-compatible distributed object-storage service that makes the application developer’s job as simple as possible.
Upstash powers caching and messaging for tens of thousands of production applications across four different products, including many AI applications.
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.
a16z announces its second batch of a16z Open Source AI Grant recipients. This cohort focuses mainly on LLMs and visual AI models.
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.
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.
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 speakers at our Connect/Enterprise event share their experiences across a range of company-building topics, from product strategy to COVID-19.
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.
Will AI take all the design jobs? Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, looks at the relationship between designers, developers, and 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.
a16z announces its Open Source AI Grant program, which will support a small group of open source developers through grant funding.
With generative AI, we’re already seeing use cases with orders-of-magnitude improvement in time, cost, and performance over previous AI waves.
Socket monitors open source packages for the most important security issues, covering the spectrum of risk across the software supply chain.
A very simple “getting started with AI” template for those who want to play with core technologies, but not have to think too much about tooling.
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.
ElevenLabs is on a mission to give every program a voice through its proprietary speech synthesis, voice design, and cloning technology
A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models.
Composable customer data platforms are taking advantage of a shift in data infrastructure and embracing a “warehouse-first” architecture.
Highlights from the a16z Data and AI Forum, featuring founders building products across the spectrum of data and AI use cases.
Founders and execs from Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Gong, and Yubico share their experiences and advice on growing enterprise startups.
The generative AI boom is compute-bound and, as a result, a predominant factor driving the industry is simply the cost of training and inference.
We’re leading a $100 million Series B round in vector database provider Pinecone, to support its vision of becoming the memory layer for AI applications.
Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Witho...
Our 2023 report aims to break through the noise of price movements to track the signals that matter and the progress of web3 technology.
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...
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...
Understanding what’s in an image — one of the simplest cognitive tasks for most humans — is a stubbornly difficult problem for artificial intelligence systems to solve.
The contractor payroll market is massive. Roughly one-third of U.S. workers have performed freelance work in the last year, and $1.4 trillion is paid out to contract workers annually. In many ways, contractors are the ba...
Every so often, we meet founders with unusually strong conviction about solving systems problems. They’ve often lived through the pain of bad software, diagnosed the cause of their suffering, and made it their mission to...
It’s very rare to see a new building block emerge in computing. If aliens landed on earth and decompiled our software, every app would look roughly the same: some combination of networking, storage, and compute. The way...
In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software. To make knowledge work seamless, internal teams have largely moved off of “hard files,” toward real-time workspaces with commenting, collaboration, and...
Product and go-to-market teams must align upfront on how to segment customers, and on which features will result in more happy customers.
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
Big data’s roots are in the hyperscalers. As a result, most tooling we use for analytics today has been built around a scale-out approach where performance is sacrificed for the ability to handle enormous amounts of data...
VisiCalc, the first computer-based spreadsheet, was launched in 1979. For the first time, this brought data analysis and computing together, in a way thousands of times more powerful than pen and paper. While VisiCalc is...
We’re very excited to announce that we’re leading the series B for Fly.io. Fly is one of the fastest-growing core infrastructure companies we have ever seen. And it’s worth understanding why.
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...
Vertical clouds are on the rise, as traditional clouds give way to specialization.
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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