a16z Podcast

  • Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology’s Role in Public Safety

    Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide. Taken from a16z’s recent LP…

  • DNA’s Potential to Store the World’s Data

    Nature’s blueprint – DNA – is an incredibly efficient machine. You cannot see it with the naked eye, yet it can last for hundreds, maybe even millions of years. Plus, the storage capacity of a…

  • A Year of Unlocks: 2023 In AI, Healthcare, Housing, and More

    As we close off 2023, we wanted to revisit some of our favorite episodes from the last year. From AI hardware, to healthcare regulation, to disrupting the world’s largest asset class, to the electrification of…

  • The Future of Longevity with Tony Robbins

    Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this week’s episode, Marc and Ben are joined by special guest Tony Robbins to discuss the future of longevity.…

  • 2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence

    A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview…

  • Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation

    General Partner Anjney Midha explores the cutting-edge world of text-to-video AI with AI researchers Andreas Blattmann and Robin Rombach.  Released in November, Stable Video Diffusion is their latest open-source generative video model, overcoming challenges in…

  • 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 hear directly…

  • 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 has rapidly become the top choice for…

  • 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 idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024. Here in our 3-part series,…

  • 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 grade-school mathematical…

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