Anish Acharya
General Partner at a16z
AI Apps investing @ A16Z; A1111; Boards of Krea, Deel, Clutch, Titan, Arc Boats, Untitled, Happy Robot + many more; Everything's Computer
Anish Acharya is an entrepreneur and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. At a16z, he focuses on consumer investing, including AI-native products and companies that will help usher in a new era of abundance. Anish first joined the firm in 2019 with a focus on fintech, often investing in B2C technologies. Source
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1 month ago |
a16z.com | Anish Acharya |Justine Moore |Olivia Moore
Krea is building an interface for creative professionals and enthusiasts to use AI tools. The product combines powerful primitives with the most cutting-edge models, acting as a copilot that multiplies human creativity.
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May 29, 2024 |
a16z.com | Olivia Moore |Anish Acharya
Now is the time to reinvent the phone call. Thanks to gen AI, humans will spend time on the phone only when a call has value to them.
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This is a very cool release - a common misconception of voice models is that latency is the biggest driver of quality, when in fact turn-taking and interruption handling is the magic that makes these conversations feel human.
Introducing Conversational AI 2.0 Build voice agents with: • New state-of-the-art turn-taking model • Language switching • Multicharacter mode • Multimodality • Batch calls • Built-in RAG Now fully enterprise-ready with HIPAA compliance, EU data residency, and robust https://t.co/rlPmYSjq4H
A few Qs I think are key: - What constraints do you impose, and how do you communicate them? - How do you tradeoff mass market appeal from expressiveness? - How do you make it FUN? - How do you build in "vibe deploying" and "vibe debugging" in a similarly delightful way?
I had a fun conversation last week with @PeterDiamandis and the Moonshots crew; here is a clip where we cover models and their implications for Adaptive vs Static systems - this is important for everything from inventing music to competitive moats. https://t.co/En5uCPAF18