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.
Who’s Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software Development
By Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li, and Derrick Harris
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AI Is Upending SaaS Pricing
By Scott Woody and Martin Casado -
AI's Unsung Hero: Data Labeling and Expert Evals
By Manu Sharma and Matt Bornstein -
AI, Data Engineering, and the Modern Data Stack
By Tristan Handy, Jennifer Li, and Matt Bornstein -
Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
By David Mytton and Joel de la Garza -
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
By Anant Bhardwaj and Guido Appenzeller -
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
By Anjney Midha, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica, and Wei-Lin Chiang -
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
