Too many businesses wait too long to flip the fee switch — so here’s how to reason about when to turn on fees in a network.

Fal's Burkay Gur and Batuhan Taskaya discuss how they built a generative media cloud optimized for AI video and image models.

“Many banks have hostages, not customers.” Reviving the fight over data access, new M&A deals, and more in our July Fintech newsletter.

Socket founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh dives into the intersection of vibe coding and security — a great pairing if you follow some best practices.

Plus: Inside our investments in Thinking Machines Lab, Cluely, and more in our latest Enterprise newsletter.

Metronome CEO Scott Woody unpacks how AI is fundamentally changing the value proposition of SaaS, spurring a shift to usage-based pricing.

Narrow apps are hiding inside broader platforms. The free tier is the funnel. The $200 tier is the real product.

Delaware’s no longer a safe bet. a16z is moving to Nevada—and here’s why more founders should reconsider where they incorporate.

Insights from finance leaders at Databricks, ElevenLabs, Together AI, Concourse, and Ambient.ai, in our June Fintech newsletter.

Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma explores data labeling and evaluation in AI, from early supervised learning to today’s reinforcement learning loops.

The third batch of a16z Open Source AI Grants focuses on better understanding the capabilities of frontier LLMs and testing their boundaries.

Much of what worked for traditional SaaS companies doesn’t hold true for AI. Here's how enterprise AI startups are adapting, growing, and breaking out.

Business leaders and technologists increasingly feel compelled to enter public service. Studying earlier eras will help us understand how to make it work.

dbt Labs founder and CEO Tristan Handy discusses the rise (and plateau) of the modern data stack and role of AI in analytics and data engineering.

In this episode, Tennr cofounder and CEO Trey Holterman sits down with a16z’s David Haber and Jay Rughani to unpack one of healthcare’s most overlooked pain points: patient referral logistics. When a patient is referred...

Analysts can become key sources of product feedback, shape buyer perception, and underscore your credibility in key deals. Our guide to making that happen.

Arcjet's David Mytton and a16z's Joel de la Garza discuss how sites can distinguish malicious bots from helpful AI agents — and what to do about it.

The assumptions underpinning traditional penetration testing are starting to bend, and a new generation of AI-driven approaches is emerging.

Notes on distribution tactics, seizing mindshare…and an extended metaphor about pigeons.

In this episode Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice and host of Uncapped, interviews Marc Andreessen on how venture capital is evolving — from small seed funds to billion-dollar barbell strategies — and why today’s most importan...

Instabase's Anant Bhardwaj and a16z's Guido Appenzeller discuss the revolutionary impact of LLMs on analyzing and — some day — acting on unstructured data.

16 key shifts in how enterprises are budgeting for, buying, and deploying gen AI in 2025—and beyond.

What if one of healthcare’s most complex administrative challenges—revenue cycle management—was reframed as a data science problem? In this episode, Malinka Walaliyadde, co-founder and CEO of Akasa, joins Julie Yoo to un...

New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.

In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg is joined by the a16z Consumer team—General Partner Anish Acharya and Partners Olivia Moore, Justine Moore, and Bryan Kim—for a conversation on the current state (and...

Enterprises buying AI are like your grandma getting an iPhone: they want to use it, but they need you to set it up.

What if the next leap in artificial intelligence isn’t about better language—but better understanding of space?

Market research has long relied on expensive human surveys. Now AI research companies are replacing them with simulated societies of generative AI agents.

Plus: A framework for defining and refining your ICP, emerging developer patterns, and more in the May Enterprise newsletter.

What does it take to build a venture firm from scratch—and scale it across multiple waves of technological and cultural change?

LMArena is reframing the problem of benchmarking AI models: What if the best way to test is to put them in front of millions of users and let them vote?

In the not-so-distant future, consumers and businesses will be able to instruct an agent to make any payments they want on their behalf.

The United States should back a critical minerals champion powered by innovation, resilience, speed, and the ingenuity and resolve of American builders. 

In this episode a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with legendary music producer and bestselling author Rick Rubin to explore the origin of his unexpected new creation: "The Way of Code"*

To secure the United States’ position as the unrivaled world leader in AI, the federal government’s R&D strategy must prioritize tech startups, which we refer to as Little Tech. This strategy should focus on two pillars: (1) building robust national AI research infrastructure and (2) supporting research that will fuel American competitiveness.

Traditional search was built on links; GEO is built on language. A new paradigm is emerging, one driven not by page rank, but by AI models.

Policymakers want a thriving national AI market—but model thresholds based on compute or training costs will harm startups. Thresholds that target the application of AI tools, like revenue-based thresholds, are more likely to properly identify companies that are well-positioned to bear more substantial regulatory burdens.

What if we stopped trying to cure disease and started preventing it instead? In this episode, Dr. Eric Topol joins general partner Vijay Pande, PhD, to unpack the future of aging, prevention, and precision health—as explored in Eric's new book, Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity.

AI’s breakout moment is here - but where is the real value accruing, and what’s just hype?

What happens when AI stops being just infrastructure—and becomes a matter of national identity and global power?

What exactly is an AI agent — and does anyone actually agree?

Recorded live at the 2025 a16z LP Summit, this episode is a candid conversation between a16z cofounders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz—hosted by general partner Erik Torenberg.

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a $300 billion industry powering the back- and front-office operations of the world’s largest companies.

The a16z Infra teams explores how LLMs are reshaping software development — from its potential as a new programming abstraction to its practical impacts.

American healthcare is in crisis—but what if we could change the system by preventing disease before it starts?

Arif Nathoo, cofounder and CEO of Komodo Health, joins Jorge Conde and Jay Rughani to explore the transformative potential of healthcare data in reshaping biotech and healthcare innovation. Arif reflects on a decade-long...

Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat AI agents as a new foundation for how software gets built.

Your ideal customer profile (ICP) is the north star for your entire company: it determines who you’re building for and selling to. Though most growth-stage founders think they know who their ICP is, very few know how to...

A step-by-step framework to test if you know who your ICP is—or build it out if you don’t.

Why ICP misalignment is often the hidden cause of common problems across the entire company—and how to fix it.

A guide for product managers to stay current, build novel products, and level up their role alongside AI.

Anthropic's David Soria Parra discusses MCP's inception, exciting use cases for connecting LLMs to external sources, and what's coming next for the project.

Today’s critical infrastructure—air traffic, logistics, defense—is powered by legacy software. And that’s a problem.

Join a16z general partners Marc Andreessen, Julie Yoo, and Vijay Pande for an incisive exploration of what's driving—and stalling—transformation in healthcare. With the industry now consuming nearly 20% of U.S. GDP yet d...

a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents.

We’re inching close to generalizable, deployable robot models, but still struggling to find the right bounds for these deployed systems.

ARES (Automatic Robot Evaluation System) is an all-in-one, open-source robot data platform, aimed at helping robotics researchers build better models.

AI-powered wearables will be more adaptive, agentic, and immersive than your smartphone. Meta’s Andrew Bosworth explains how.

Policymakers are proposing new transparency requirements for AI developers to disclose information ranging from model design and training data to safety testing procedures and predictions about speculative harms. While transparency is a laudable goal, many of these mandates provide minimal benefit to end users, but threaten to overwhelm Little Tech—our term for startups—with unconstitutional compliance burdens that would make it harder for them to compete with larger platforms.

a16z is excited to welcome Erik Torenberg as our newest General Partner, bringing a decade of experience at the intersection of investing, media, and networks. With our acquisition of Turpentine, Erik will help scale our media and network efforts while continuing to invest in the next generation of founders.

In today’s world, the battlefield extends far beyond war zones—it’s embedded in our tech stacks, supply chains, and airspace security systems. So who better to solve these modern challenges than those who’ve served on th...

President Trump signs Congressional Review Act resolution. Stablecoin bill eligible for House Floor vote. SEC clarifies stablecoins view.

Seth Hain, SVP of R&D at Epic, joins a16z Bio + Health general partner Julie Yoo to explore technology in healthcare. Reflecting on over two decades of industry shifts, Seth shares how Epic has transitioned from enab...

War has always been shaped by technology—from steel and gunpowder to GPS and nuclear weapons. But the decisive technologies of tomorrow aren’t coming—they’re already here.

What happens when AI doesn’t just generate content, but embodies it? I tested over 20 AI avatar products to understand what’s working and what's next.

Building your own GPU server—like the one described here—means no API calls to external services, no data leakage, and no usage throttles.

By Colin Campbell and Jonathan Lai

When people think about startups working with the government, the phrase “black box” often comes up. But what if that box is finally being pried open?