2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence
A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z t...
22 Des 202347min
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach. Released in November, Stable Video Diffusion is their latest o...
20 Des 202332min
2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off
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 he...
15 Des 20231h
Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
Arthur Mensch is the co-founder of Mistral and the co-author of Deepmind’s pivotal 2022 "Chinchilla" paper.In September 2023, Mistral released Mistral-7B, an advanced open-source language model that h...
11 Des 202334min
2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability
Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big ideathey believe will drive innovation in 2024.Here ...
8 Des 20231h 5min
The Quest for AGI: Q*, Self-Play, and Synthetic Data
One topic at the center of the AI universe this week is a potential breakthrough called Q*. Little has been revealed about this OpenAI project, other than its likely relationship to solving certain gr...
4 Des 202326min
Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus
with @davidmarcus @smc90This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to ship; the relationship between centralization, de...
28 Nov 202348min
When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm
Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult. But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs off guard.In this episode, you’ll hear from two CE...
23 Nov 202351min
