Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
A 2024 highlight reel, featuring founders sharing their insights, advice, and experiences building AI companies — from foundation-model labs to vertical applications. Topics include:Building AI tools ...
27 Des 202446min
Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Decagon cofounder/CEO Jesse Zhang and a16z partner Kimberly Tan discuss how LLMs are reshaping customer support, the strong market demand for AI agents, and h...
18 Des 202444min
REPLAY: Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market
This is a replay of our first episode from April 12, featuring Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao and a16z partner Matt Bornstein discussing enterprise LLM adoption, hardware platforms, and what it means ...
30 Nov 202443min
Building Developers Tools, From Docker to Diffusion Models
In this episode of AI + a16z, Replicate cofounder and CEO Ben Firshman, and a16z partner Matt Bornstein, discuss the art of building products and companies that appeal to software developers. Ben was ...
15 Nov 202441min
The Best Way to Achieve AGI Is to Invent It
Longtime machine-learning researcher, and University of Washington Professor Emeritus, Pedro Domingos joins a16z General Partner Martin Casado to discuss the state of artificial intelligence, whether ...
4 Nov 202438min
Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity
In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on the recent collection of Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers in both Physics and Chemistry. He talks through how...
25 Okt 202440min
How GPU Access Helps AI Startups Be Agile
In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha explains the forces that lead to GPU shortages and price spikes, and how the firm mitigates these concerns for portfolio companies by supplyi...
23 Okt 202439min
DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models
In this episode of AI + a16z, Bowen Peng and Jeffrey Quesnelle of Nous Research join a16z General Partner Anjney Midha to discuss their mission to keep open source AI research alive and activate the c...
27 Sep 20241h 12min
