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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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
The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande.In thi...
13 Nov 202328min
From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code
Is it possible to construct a virtual society that authentically replicates human behavior? AI Town, a virtual town experiment where AI residents live, interact, and engage, provides valuable insights...
6 Nov 202339min
