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
Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications
In this episode of AI + a16z, Ambience cofounder and chief scientist Nikhil Buduma joins Derrick Harris to discuss the nuances of using AI models to build vertical applications (including in his space...
13 Sep 202442min
AI, SQL, and the End of Big Data
In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z General Partner Jennifer Li joins MotherDuck Cofounder and CEO Jordan Tigani to discuss DuckDB's spiking popularity as the era of big data wanes, as well as the appl...
30 Aug 202433min
The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Black Forest Labs founders Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser sit down with a16z general partner Anjney Midha to discuss their journey from P...
16 Aug 202437min
Why Computer Science Subsumed Biotech
In this episode, a16z General Partner Vijay Pande walks us through the past two decades of applying software engineering to the life sciences — from the Folding@Home project that he launched, through ...
9 Aug 202447min
Democratizing Generative AI Red Teams
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha speaks with PromptFoo founder and CEO Ian Webster about the importance of red-teaming for AI safety and security, and how br...
2 Aug 202444min
