Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the company where Ryo is now Head of Design. In this...

21 Marras 202552min

The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actually programmable. While everyone obsesses o...

18 Marras 202557min

If you can’t robustly protect your secrets, you can’t have reliable AI agents.In this episode, Truffle Security cofounder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discuss the emergen...

11 Marras 202528min

In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Ovais Tariq, Cofounder and CEO of Tigris Data, to discuss why independent storage is so hard, what operating your own datacenters is ...

7 Marras 202538min

Customer support platforms lacked adequate solutions for B2B companies - until Pylon entered the scene.We sat down with Pylon cofounders Marty Kausas, Advith Chelikani, and Robert Eng to discuss why t...

31 Loka 202547min

In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get them into production, and they’ll need companies like Keycard to manage fleets of agents.In this con...

22 Loka 202532min

AI coding has emerged as a major market for AI: one that’s already rewriting how software gets built.a16z Infra Partners Yoko Li and Guido Appenzeller break down how “agents with environments” are cha...

10 Loka 202538min

What if the hardest part of building a company isn’t the product, but knowing exactly who it’s for?In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Abhishek Agrawal, Cofounder and CE...

6 Loka 202534min