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May 17, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Guido Appenzeller |Matt Bornstein |Derrick Harris |Dean De Beer
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Matt Bornstein discuss the state of the generative AI market, about 18 months after it really kicked into high gear with the release of ChatGPT — everything from the emergence of powerful open source LLMs to the excitement around AI-generated music.
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May 17, 2024 | a16z.com | Guido Appenzeller |Matt Bornstein |Derrick Harris |Dean De Beer
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Matt Bornstein discuss the state of the generative AI market, about 18 months after it really kicked into high gear with the release of ChatGPT — everything from the emergence of powerful open source LLMs to the excitement around AI-generated music.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Anjney Midha |Derrick Harris |Matt Bornstein |Naveen Rao
In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his thoughts on how hardware for artificial intelligence might evolve over the years to come as we place more emphasis on AI inference workloads. Improvements in sensors, chips, models, and more could result in remarkably useful models that are able to run locally, resulting in wearable AI products that evolve the human experience.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Martin Casado |Matt Bornstein |Jennifer Li |Rajko Radovanovic
Jennifer Li is being promoted to GP where she will continue to invest broadly within the enterprise space, focusing on infrastructure and horizontal SaaS. Jennifer joined us 6 years ago as an investment partner, transitioning from a long-time operating role running product teams, and building developer tools, and ML applications. In that time she has gone from just learning about venture, to being one of the most impactful investors in the firm.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Matt Bornstein |Derrick Harris |Anjney Midha |Naveen Rao
Naveen Rao has been building artificial intelligence technologies and companies for more than a decade. He founded Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel) and MosaicML (acquired by Databricks), and now serves as vice president of generative AI at Databricks. From chips to models, there are few people with a better pulse on how enterprises are using AI.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Martin Casado |Matt Bornstein |Rajko Radovanovic |Mira Murati
AI represents a generational shift in computing — following in the footsteps of the microprocessor and the internet — and it will deliver commensurate improvements in cost, efficiency, and human productivity. At a16z Infra, we believe that infrastructure underpins this coming shift just as it does for many other transformational technologies.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Martin Casado |Katherine Boyle |Jennifer Li |Matt Bornstein
In this presentation from the American Dynamism Summit, a16z General Partner Martin Casado lays out the case for AI as a driving force behind incredible advancements in technology, creativity, and the human experience — not to mention efficiency improvements on par with, if not greater than, those delivered by the internet and the microchip. Here is a transcript of his presentation:I’m going to be covering this AI stuff everybody is talking about.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
a16z.com | Martin Casado |Jennifer Li |Yoko Li |Matt Bornstein
There is no culture, country, nor period of human history where creative expression hasn’t been central. It’s an intrinsic “something” that has long defined humans as humans, and (rightly or wrongly …) somehow different from all other forms of life. And yet, despite its foundational nature inside all of us, being a “creative” is often also reduced to describing someone with innate skill or studied mastery in creative disciplines such as music, painting, or sculpting.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Martin Casado |Matt Bornstein |Anjney Midha |Rajko Radovanovic
Modern AI has allowed us to build the world’s first creative computers. Fields that once seemed uniquely human — like visual art, writing, music, or even the art of conversation — are now accessible to software in ways we couldn’t previously imagine. For many consumer AI apps, this is an incredible and groundbreaking feature. For business applications, though, creativity poses a problem.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
a16z.com | Matt Bornstein |Rajko Radovanovic |Martin Casado |Anjney Midha
We’re excited to announce the second batch of a16z Open Source AI Grant recipients. This program is designed to support a thriving open source ecosystem around modern AI. We provide grant funding (not an investment) to developers and small teams who are building critical pieces of the open source AI stack. More information about the program and a list of prior recipients are available here.
