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.
August 1, 2025
Performance and Passion: Fal's Approach to AI Inference
Burkay Gur, Batuhan Taskaya, and Jennifer Li
June 23, 2025
AI, Data Engineering, and the Modern Data Stack
Tristan Handy, Jennifer Li, and Matt Bornstein
June 16, 2025
Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
David Mytton and Joel de la Garza
June 10, 2025
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
Anant Bhardwaj and Guido Appenzeller
May 29, 2025
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
Anjney Midha, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica, and Wei-Lin Chiang
May 16, 2025
Who's Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software Development
Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris
March 5, 2025
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
Guido Appenzeller and Marco Mascorro
February 28, 2025
What DeepSeek Means for Cybersecurity
Brian Long, Dylan Ayrey, Ian Webster, and Joel de la Garza
February 14, 2025
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
Alex Immerman and George Sivulka
February 7, 2025
Data Management for Enterprise LLMs
George Fraser, Guido Appenzeller, and Derrick Harris
December 27, 2024
Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
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
December 18, 2024
Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
Jesse Zhang, Kimberly Tan, and Derrick Harris
November 15, 2024
Building Developers Tools, From Docker to Diffusion Models
Ben Firshman, Matt Bornstein, and Derrick Harris
October 25, 2024
Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity
Anjney Midha and Derrick Harris
September 27, 2024
DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models
Bowen Peng, Jeffrey Quesnelle, and Anjney Midha
September 16, 2024
Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications
Nikhil Buduma and Derrick Harris
August 16, 2024
The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models
Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattman, Patrick Esser, and Anjney Midha
July 26, 2024
Augmenting Incident Response with LLMs
Dean De Beer, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris
July 19, 2024
Scaling AI for the Coming Data Deluge
Robert Nishihara, Jennifer Li, and Derrick Harris
July 3, 2024
Beyond Language: Inside a Hundred-Trillion-Token Video Model
Anjney Midha and Jiaming Song
June 21, 2024
Developer Tool UX in the Age of Generative AI
Alasdair Monk, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris
June 14, 2024
Building Production Workflows for AI Applications
Tony Holdstock-Brown, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris
June 7, 2024
The Future of Image Models Is Multimodal
Mohammad Norouzi, Jennifer Li, and Derrick Harris
May 24, 2024
Open Models (w/ Arthur Mensch) and Video Models (w/ Stefano Ermon)
Anjney Midha, Arthur Mensch, and Stefano Ermon
May 17, 2024
Open Models and Maturation: Assessing the Generative AI Market
Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Derrick Harris
May 15, 2024
Security Founders Talk Shop About Generative AI
Dean De Beer, Kevin Tian, Travis McPeak, and Derrick Harris
May 10, 2024
How to Think About Foundation Models for Cybersecurity
Zane Lackey, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris
May 3, 2024
Securing the Software Supply Chain with LLMs
Feross Aboukhadijeh, Joel de la Garza, and Derrick Harris
April 26, 2024
Vector Databases and the Power of RAG
Edo Liberty, Satish Talluri, and Derrick Harris
April 12, 2024
Making the Most of Open Source AI
Jim Zemlin, Mitchell Baker, Percy Liang, Anjney Midha, and Derrick Harris