The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) remains focused on bringing African Americans into tech at the earliest stages of innovation. Our 2024 nonprofit partners add unique strengths and fresh perspectives to our growing network. We’re excited to collaborate to increase Black participation across the tech ecosystem.

Replicate CEO Ben Firshman and a16z partner Matt Bornstein discuss the art of building productss — from PaaS to AI — that appeal to software developers.

As AI turns labor into software, the opportunity to productize external professional services has become a hot topic. However, we believe there is also substantial opportunity in productizing internal work within organizations.

For LLM of equivalent performance, the inference cost is decreasing by 10x every year. What cost $60/million tokens in 2021 costs $.06/million tokens today.

In this episode, a16z partners Jorge Conde and Jay Rughani sit down with Sajith Wickramasekara, CEO and cofounder of Benchling, to unpack the evolution of Benchling from idea to transformative software platform.

Brian Roberts is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where he will work across the American Dynamism and AI Apps funds.

Andy McCall is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner. He will work across the American Dynamism and AI Apps funds.

Pedro Domingos joins Martin Casado to discuss the state of AI, whether we're really on a path toward AGI, and the value of expressing unpopular opinions.

a16z and Microsoft share policy ideas for AI startups so they can thrive, collaborate, and compete.

a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explore an unusual intersection of AI and crypto: the sudden rise of a bot-beloved memecoin.

a16z General Partner Anjney Midha discusses the Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers, and how work dating back decades led to today's AI-powered world.

What does Rich Sutton’s "Bitter Lesson" reveal about the decisions Tesla is making in its pursuit of autonomy?

We’re excited to welcome Teach.Empower.Achieve., Unlocked Labs, and VetsinTech to the TxO community as our 2024 grantees!

Oxygen is an a16z program that helps AI startup founders navigate their compute challenges and access the GPUs and other resources they require.

The VP of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet discusses the challenges she confronted pushing Apple Pay into the mainstream, new Apple verticals on the horizon, and her advice for early entrepreneurs.

Chris Ellis, CEO and Adam Stevenson, president, both cofounders of Thatch, join Julie Yoo and Jay Rughani of a16z Bio + Health.

Behind the scenes of our 2024 State of Crypto Report — stablecoins, AI, builder energy, U.S. election, more — on the web3 with a16z podcast.

The 2024 guide to this year's State of Crypto report — from all-time highs in crypto activity to key applications in AI, stablecoins, and more.

LLMs can now enable experiences that capture data at the point of creation in ways that were impossible for traditional software.

AMD CEO Lisa Su lays out her vision for the evolution of compute within the AI ecosystem.

How to estimate the number of monthly active crypto users given that common metrics like active addresses are so easily gamed.

Explore the data behind all-time highs in crypto activity, key advances in blockchain technologies, and next-generation applications in gaming, AI, and more.

Every day, millions of SMBs waste countless hours synthesizing waves of unstructured information and entering data into systems of record. We call this the “messy inbox problem.”

David's mental models for growth-stage investing, what it really takes to go public, where AI is today and where it’s headed, and more.

Jonathan Lim, chairman and CEO of Erasca, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z. In a recent conversation, Lim shared valuable insights about his transition to the biotech world, his leadership experiences, and the lessons he's learned while founding and guiding organizations through high-stakes decision making.

How policymakers can implement measures that will help catching bad actors and reign in illicit financial activity in crypto

Highlights from the Science of Blockchain Conference, a premier conference bringing together researchers and builders, in NYC August 7-9, 2024

Las Vegas Metro Police improved public safety with $6.3M in state-of-the-art tech from Skydio and Flock Safety, enhancing intelligence and awareness.

Deepfakes—AI-generated fake videos and voices—have become a widespread concern across politics, social media, and more. As they become easier to create, the threat grows. But so do the tools to detect them.

Today characters are owned by corporations, but NFTs and DAOs enable communities to bring new characters and culture to the world.

In this talk Ron Lavi describes “VCG contracts,” a type of “contractible contracts” – contracts where the payment of a principal to an agent can also be conditioned on details specified in contracts that other principals submit.

Deepak Maram (Mysten Labs) introduces zkLogin, a user-friendly innovation for cryptocurrency wallets.

While tech platforms have helped us discover and connect with more artists than ever — including more independent artists — a few mainstream artists continue to dominate platforms. It’s a structural problem in the entertainment industry, and also involves the way many tech platforms operate today: Creators need power, power comes from control, and control comes from ownership.

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.

Voices Onchain highlights creators who have turned to blockchain technology to unlock new creative possibilities, build deeper connections with fans, and discover more ways to monetize their work.

Last week was another big week in technology.

Vijay Pande, general partner, and Daisy Wolf, investing partner, join host Steph Smith on this crossover episode of the a16z podcast.

Yehuda Lindell introduces the notion of an exponent-VRF, or eVRF, a VRF that provides a generator of some finite cyclic group

Abhi Shelat identifies a specific rewriting of the ECDSA signing equation and a method to compute and verify it.

In 1995, just 2% of couples met online. Today, that number has surged to over 50%, making online dating the top way couples connect.

In this month's fintech newsletter, we look at how AI is driving a new beginning for fintech. Plus, when fintechs look more like banks, what does it mean for valuations?

Marta Bralic Kerns, founder and CEO of Pomelo Care, joins Will Shrank, MD, a16z Bio + Health venture partner. Together, they talk about the innovator’s dilemma with building in the Medicaid space

Bowen Peng and Jeffrey Quesnelle of Nous Research discuss their mission to accelerate open source AI research, including with a new project called DisTrO.

It feels like software is shrinking while everyone is scrambling to buy generative AI. What’s changed, and how can you get a leg up?

Blackstone's CTO describes the qualities he looks for in early stage companies and predicts AI's impact on real estate, credit, and energy.

Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang discusses the three pillars of AI—models, compute, and data—and how abundant data is core to the evolution of gen AI.

Nikita Singareddy, cofounder and CEO of Fortuna Health, joins Will Shrank, MD, a16z Bio + Health venture partner. This is the second episode in our Medicaid Matters series.

Anime is just getting started - today, new technologies and business models are accelerating a once niche industry to even greater heights.

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.

Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, our guests have long been laying the groundwork for innovations that are transforming industries today...

Over the next three episodes, we’re going to talk about why Medicaid matters, and the potential for technology to make it easier for enrollees to access and utilize the program. Our first guest is Mark Smith, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF.

Ambience cofounder Nikhil Buduma discusses how to build vertical applications with AI models, including in health care, and why tech expertise isn't enough.

This week in consumer tech: Apple’s big reveals, OpenAI’s multi-step reasoning, and Adobe Firefly’s video model.

Every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents. 

When does virtual reality cease being virtual… and start to become reality? This episode digs deep into game design, philosophy, and mechanics with the maker of one of the world’s most iconic massive multiplayer online role playing games: EVE Online.

Vijay Pande, PhD, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health, joins Derrick Harris, host of the AI + a16z podcast.

Across the industries and companies that comprise American Dynamism, a decoupling of hardware and software for autonomy use cases is underway.

Discord Activities represents a significant opportunity for developers to create the next generation of web-based games.

Casey Means, MD, a Stanford-trained physician, cofounder of Levels, and author of the new book Good Energy, joins Vijay Pande, PhD, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.

MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani discusses DuckDB's spiking popularity as the era of big data wanes, as well as the nexus of SQL and LLMs.

This month, the a16z fintech team went to Fintech DevCon, payments platform Moov’s annual conference for the fintech developer community.

As interest rates remain high, many SaaS businesses are reevaluating how much they give away in their free tier. Here's how to optimize.

Half of prescribed medications are never taken, and 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Despite spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare—twice that of any other developed nation—our outcomes still lag behind. In t...

Generative AI is enabling a foundational shift in creative storytelling, empowering a new class of human creators to tell stories not feasible before.

Consumers are effectively a new class of payor. And a number of opportunities exist to build solutions for those consumers (aka these new “micro payors”) to fund, navigate, and manage their healthcare purchases.

Greg Meyers, EVP and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, or BMS, joins Jorge Conde, general partner at a16z. This is a follow-up to their 2023 episode, where they discussed how biopharma can adapt to AI.

An acceleration of talent, capital, and research progress in the robotics domain could enable the development of a horizontal robotics platform.

Latin America is emerging as a tech powerhouse, but it's not a one-size-fits-all market.

Today, thanks to AI, we are witnessing potentially the greatest transmutation in history. Software becomes labor. It’s the new E=MC2.

A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN is coming back to SF! SR004 will run for 12 weeks starting January 6th, 2025, and culminate in a Demo Day during GDC week. Applications will be open from August 26th to September 30th, 2024.

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?

A conversation about the role startups are playing in partnership with big banks and where Tim disagrees with the zeitgeist on the adoption of AI in financial services.

Michael Crackower, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Ventus Therapeutics, and Jason Burch, PhD, join Vineeta Agarwala, PhD, general partner at a16z Bio + Health.

Time-tested guidelines for starting a social presence from scratch. Plus, tools founders can use to know how, when, and what to post.

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...

Black Forest Labs founders Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser discuss their new company building state-of-the-art image and video models.

Whereas we historically have viewed the low adoption of software as a liability, we now view that as an asset—we don't face the same sunk cost bias that might be slowing other industries down from taking full advantage of the latest AI innovations.

Logistics wins wars, and military logistics today means moving fuel. Advanced nuclear microreactors can replace fuel supply chains with on-site power, revolutionizing warfare and saving lives.

Bowen Liu, PhD, investing partner, and Surya Ganguli, PhD, venture partner, join Vijay Pande, PhD, general partner of a16z Bio + Health.