AI + a16z
Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.
All episodes
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Who's Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software Development
By Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris -
MCP Co-Creator on the Next Wave of LLM Innovation
By David Soria Parra and Yoko Li -
What Is an AI Agent?
By Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris -
Benchmarking AI Agents on Full-Stack Coding
By Martin Casado and Sujay Jayakar -
Automating Developer Email with MCP and Al Agents
By Zeno Rocha and Yoko Li -
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
By Ankit Kumar and Anjney Midha -
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
By Matt Biilmann and Martin Casado -
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
By Guido Appenzeller and Marco Mascorro -
What DeepSeek Means for Cybersecurity
By Brian Long, Dylan Ayrey, Ian Webster, and Joel de la Garza -
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
By Aatish Nayak and Kimberly Tan -
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
By Alex Immerman and George Sivulka -
Data Management for Enterprise LLMs
By George Fraser, Guido Appenzeller, and Derrick Harris -
From NLP to LLMs: The Quest for a Reliable Chatbot
By Alan Nichol and Martin Casado -
Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
By Andreas Blattman, Ben Firshman, Dean De Beer, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Jesse Zhang, Mohammad Norouzi, Naveen Rao, Nikhil Buduma, Patrick Esser, Robert Nishihara, Robin Rombach, Tony Holdstock-Brown, and Derrick Harris -
Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
By Jesse Zhang, Kimberly Tan, and Derrick Harris -
Building Developers Tools, From Docker to Diffusion Models
By Ben Firshman, Matt Bornstein, and Derrick Harris -
The Best Way to Achieve AGI Is to Invent It
By Pedro Domingos and Martin Casado -
Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity
By Anjney Midha and Derrick Harris -
How GPU Access Helps Startups Be Agile
By Anjney Midha and Derrick Harris -
DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models
By Bowen Peng, Jeffrey Quesnelle, and Anjney Midha -
Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications
By Nikhil Buduma and Derrick Harris -
AI, SQL, and the End of Big Data
By Jordan Tigani, Jennifer Li, and Derrick Harris -
The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models
By Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattman, Patrick Esser, and Anjney Midha -
Why Computer Science Subsumed Biotech
By Vijay Pande and Derrick Harris -
Democratizing Generative AI Red Teams
By Ian Webster and Anjney Midha -
Augmenting Incident Response with LLMs
By Dean De Beer, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris -
Scaling AI for the Coming Data Deluge
By Robert Nishihara, Jennifer Li, and Derrick Harris -
Beyond Language: Inside a Hundred-Trillion-Token Video Model
By Anjney Midha and Jiaming Song -
Developer Tool UX in the Age of Generative AI
By Alasdair Monk, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris -
Building Production Workflows for AI Applications
By Tony Holdstock-Brown, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris -
The Future of Image Models Is Multimodal
By Mohammad Norouzi, Jennifer Li, and Derrick Harris -
Open Models (w/ Arthur Mensch) and Video Models (w/ Stefano Ermon)
By Anjney Midha, Arthur Mensch, and Stefano Ermon -
Open Models and Maturation: Assessing the Generative AI Market
By Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Derrick Harris -
Security Founders Talk Shop About Generative AI
By Dean De Beer, Kevin Tian, Travis McPeak, and Derrick Harris -
How to Think About Foundation Models for Cybersecurity
By Zane Lackey, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris -
Securing the Software Supply Chain with LLMs
By Feross Aboukhadijeh, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris -
Vector Databases and the Power of RAG
By Edo Liberty, Satish Talluri, and Derrick Harris -
Remaking the UI for AI
By Anjney Midha and Derrick Harris -
Welcome to the AI + a16z podcast
By a16z editorial -
Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market
By Naveen Rao, Matt Bornstein, and Derrick Harris -
Making the Most of Open Source AI
By Jim Zemlin, Mitchell Baker, Percy Liang, Anjney Midha, and Derrick Harris
