Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Cursor CEO Michael Truell joins a16z’s Martin...
13 Jan 27min
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government
Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ripple effects could reshape AI, cloud, and the glob...
6 Jan 1h 40min
Feed Drop from The Generalist: Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run
This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived through multiple tech waves as a founder, researcher, a...
30 Dec 20251h 21min
Fei-Fei Li: World Models and the Multiverse
What if the next leap in artificial intelligence isn’t about better language—but better understanding of space?In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg moderates a conversation with Fei-Fe...
23 Dec 202522min
Building the “See Something, Say Something” AI for Every Camera
a16z's Martin Casado sits down with Shikhar Shrestha, CEO and cofounder of Ambient, the company bringing agentic AI to physical security.Shikhar shares how a traumatic armed robbery at age 12—and a se...
16 Dec 202539min
The AI That Found A Bug In The World’s Most Audited Code
Matt Knight spent five years as OpenAI’s CISO. Now he runs what colleagues call “the most interesting job at the company”: leading Aardvark, an AI agent that finds security vulnerabilities the way a h...
10 Dec 202539min
The Death of Data Gatekeeping: AI Makes Everyone An Analyst | Hex Cofounder
Most companies still rely on dashboards to understand their data, even though AI now offers new ways to ask questions and explore information. Barry McCardel, CEO of Hex and former engineer at Palanti...
5 Dec 20251h 22min
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
Ian Webster built PromptFoo after watching 200 million Discord users systematically dismantle his AI agent—now Fortune 10 companies pay him to break theirs before customers do. The "lethal trifecta" s...
2 Dec 202525min
