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The a16z consumer team tapped a grab bag of fellow early-adopters and AI enthusiasts to share their favorite products from a weird and wonderful year.
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An external "AI brain." Big swings in biopharma. Infinite games. A nuclear resurgence. "Faceless" creators. Google search challengers. Battlefield AI. We asked 50 a16z partners to preview one big idea that will spur innovation in 2025.
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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?
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Thousands of new AI-native companies are vying for attention. We crunched the data to find out: Which generative AI products are people actually using?
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We predict an Era of Abundance — lives will be enriched through new channels for creativity, along with new paths to self discovery and belonging.
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Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of fully AI-native companies.
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Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024. Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?
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Thanks to generative AI, the much-discussed topic of “self-driving money” finally has a chance to achieve its potential.
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Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the emergence of online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia to aggregate inventory. Unless you h...
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If leveraged well, AI has the potential to greatly enhance students’ abilities to think critically and expand their soft skills.
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We’ve entered the age of generative AI. When new technology captures consumer attention so quickly, it begs the question: Is there real value here?
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There's much more to generative AI than heroic avatars and tongue-in-cheek art. The potential applications are widespread, from drug discovery and therapy to writing, game development, education, ecommerce, and more. Las...
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As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on...
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Early in the COVID pandemic, my colleague D’Arcy Coolican and I penned “COVID-19 and the Great Rehiring”. The premise of the piece was that the magnitude of the disruption to employment during the pandemic would require...
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The back-to-school season has been a challenging process for teachers, parents, and students across the country. While some have embraced the freedom of learning at their own pace (in their own space), many have struggle...
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This is a written version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2019. You can watch a video version on YouTube.
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We’re now coming up to nine years since the launch of the iPhone kicked off the smartphone revolution, and some of the first phases are over - Apple and Google both won, mostly, Facebook made the transition, mostly, and...
Productivity
Every employee, freelancer, and SMB owner can spend all their time on their craft instead of admin overhead. The combination of LLMs and agents enables AI tools to take a text instruction and translate it into action, giving everyone an assistant or chief-of-staff.
Featured Productivity Content
Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of fully AI-native companies.
Thanks to generative AI, the much-discussed topic of “self-driving money” finally has a chance to achieve its potential.
Now is the time to reinvent the phone call. Thanks to gen AI, humans will spend time on the phone only when a call has value to them.
Arts & Crafts
a16z’s Consumer team spends a lot of time testing (and playing with) the latest AI-native tools. Here you’ll find some of their favorite recent demos, trends, and tutorials.
@omooretweets
Sep 15
On this week’s @a16z podcast, @venturetwins and I reviewed the new AI features coming in iOS 18
Including the fact that you can now FINALLY record and transcribe calls
Plus extra smart photo search, what we hope to see from Siri, and more
@omooretweets
Sep 15
@stuffyokodraws
Aug 21
Used @ideogram_ai‘s 2.0 model to animate @a16z‘s logo yesterday: Ideogram is re-making the new workflow for every designer.
– Image & concepts @ideogram_ai
– Motion @LumaLabsAI @runwayml
– Sound effect @elevenlabsio
– Music @udiomusic
SOUND ON 🔊
@stuffyokodraws
Aug 21
@omooretweets
Aug 13
I built an AI voice agent that called the DMV to schedule an appointment for me!
….and you can too. It took <30 minutes and two tools.
(And, it was incredibly satisfying to hear my AI deal with the DMV’s AI instead of sitting on the phone myself😂)
How I did it 👇
@omooretweets
Aug 13
@venturetwins
Aug 12
Can’t stop watching this 🔥 @elevenlabsio speech-to-speech demo from @ammaar.
Such a cool way to control the emotion, timing, and delivery of AI voice.
Instead of describing what you want a clip to sound like…just voice it!
@venturetwins
Aug 12
@omooretweets
May 29
🚨 New @a16z investment thesis!
It’s time for AI to reinvent the phone call – enter conversational voice agents 📱
What we’re excited to invest in + market maps (from me and @illscience) 👇
@omooretweets
May 29
@omooretweets
Apr 26
WebSim (@websim_ai) is such a fascinating look at what a truly generative Internet might look like.
The URL bar is a prompting engine that builds a fully interactive and customizable site based on your input 🤯
You can instantly create websites, simulators, games, and more.
@omooretweets
Apr 26
@venturetwins
Apr 10
Video foundation models are getting a ton of buzz – but don’t sleep on image-based workflows.
People are making incredible things with an AnimateDiff LCM (hosted on @HelloCivitai) that allows you to easily morph between reference images.
A few of my favorite examples 👇
@venturetwins
Apr 10
@omooretweets
Mar 24
“Off label” use cases of ChatGPT are blowing up:
– Therapist
– Language tutor
– Career coach
– Research partner
This is a signal of consumer demand…and it’s time for startups to strike👇
@omooretweets
Mar 24
All Productivity Content
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Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024. Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?
-
The a16z consumer team tapped a grab bag of fellow early-adopters and AI enthusiasts to share their favorite products from a weird and wonderful year.
-
An external "AI brain." Big swings in biopharma. Infinite games. A nuclear resurgence. "Faceless" creators. Google search challengers. Battlefield AI. We asked 50 a16z partners to preview one big idea that will spur innovation in 2025.
-
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?
-
Thousands of new AI-native companies are vying for attention. We crunched the data to find out: Which generative AI products are people actually using?
-
We predict an Era of Abundance — lives will be enriched through new channels for creativity, along with new paths to self discovery and belonging.
-
Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of fully AI-native companies.
-
Thanks to generative AI, the much-discussed topic of “self-driving money” finally has a chance to achieve its potential.
-
Travel is a trillion-dollar industry stuck in the past. The last major breakthrough came in the 1990s, with the emergence of online travel agencies (OTAs) like Booking.com and Expedia to aggregate inventory. Unless you h...
-
If leveraged well, AI has the potential to greatly enhance students’ abilities to think critically and expand their soft skills.
-
We’ve entered the age of generative AI. When new technology captures consumer attention so quickly, it begs the question: Is there real value here?
-
There's much more to generative AI than heroic avatars and tongue-in-cheek art. The potential applications are widespread, from drug discovery and therapy to writing, game development, education, ecommerce, and more. Las...
-
As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on...
-
Early in the COVID pandemic, my colleague D’Arcy Coolican and I penned “COVID-19 and the Great Rehiring”. The premise of the piece was that the magnitude of the disruption to employment during the pandemic would require...
-
The back-to-school season has been a challenging process for teachers, parents, and students across the country. While some have embraced the freedom of learning at their own pace (in their own space), many have struggle...
-
This is a written version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2019. You can watch a video version on YouTube.
-
We’re now coming up to nine years since the launch of the iPhone kicked off the smartphone revolution, and some of the first phases are over - Apple and Google both won, mostly, Facebook made the transition, mostly, and...