Jensen Huang and Arthur Mensch on Winning the Global AI Race
The global race for AI leadership is no longer just about companies—it’s about nations. AI isn’t just computing infrastructure; it’s cultural infrastructure, economic strategy, and national security a...
21 Mars 202555min
Why AI Voice Feels More Human Than Ever
AI voice technology has been around for years — think Siri or Alexa — but the magic has been missing. That’s changing, and quickly!In this episode, Anish Acharya, General Partner at a16z, and Olivia M...
18 Mars 202543min
From Thesis to Meme to Fund: Building American Dynamism
For over a century, the United States has been the birthplace of world-changing innovation – from the Wright brothers’ first flight to the invention of the transistor, the moon landing, and the birth ...
11 Mars 202542min
What Founders Get Wrong About Scaling – With Carta’s CEO
Henry Ward, cofounder and CEO of Carta, has spent over a decade scaling his company from an early-stage startup to a 2,000-person industry leader. In this a16z Speedrun conversation with Games partner...
7 Mars 202540min
Creativity vs Control: Where AI Fits in the Creative Toolbox
Being a creator in 2025 is tough—but building for creators is even harder. Perhaps no one understands this conundrum better than Scott Belsky. As the founder of Behance, a longtime executive at Adobe,...
25 Feb 202542min
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
Technology doesn’t grow in isolation—it evolves in waves. Just as mobile, cloud, and SaaS shaped the internet of the past 20 years, so too could crypto, AI, and new hardware usher in an era of the int...
20 Feb 202532min
The Critical Technology in Finding Critical Materials
Critical materials like copper, lithium, and gallium have been mined for decades, but their role in core technologies, geopolitics, and the energy transition have come to a height in recent years.In t...
11 Feb 202542min
DeepSeek: America’s Sputnik Moment for AI?
Two words have caught the Internet by storm. DeepSeek. The Chinese reasoning model r1 is rivaling others at the frontier with an open-source MIT license, methods that some claim may be 45x more effici...
6 Feb 202543min
