a16z Podcast

  • Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

    In this conversation, Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, discusses his new book Mobilize, his commission in the U.S. Army, and why he believes the most important thing America can do right now…


  • AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

    A new paper, “Some Simple Economics of AGI,” is making the rounds—Web3 with a16z we sat down with author Christian Catalini (MIT Crypto Economics Lab) and Eddy Lazzarin (CTO of a16z crypto), in conversation with…


  • AI, Supply Chains, and the Future of Economic Power

    Erik Torenberg sits down with Jacob Helberg to discuss AI, manufacturing, supply chains, and the new geopolitics of technology. Drawing on themes from Helberg’s book The Wires of War, they explore why hardware, industrial capacity,…


  • What’s Missing Between LLMs and AGI – Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

    Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update their predictions in a precise, mathematically predictable way as they process…


  • AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore

    In this episode, originally aired on Big Technology Podcast, Olivia Moore discusses whether AI startups can compete with the big chatbots, why American sentiment toward AI is so negative, and what she learned from giving…


  • Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra

    Marc Andreessen joins David Senra for a conversation about entrepreneurship, history, and what drives some of the world’s most ambitious builders. In this conversation with David, Marc reflects on patterns he’s seen across great founders,…


  • Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon

    This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Michael walks through how…


  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

    This conversation with Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of Palantir, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Karp discusses the role of technology in modern warfare, Silicon Valley’s obligations to national…


  • What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety’s CEO

    In this episode, previously aired on Cheeky Pint, Garrett Langley describes how a stolen gun in his Atlanta neighborhood led him to build Flock Safety, now deployed in more than 6,000 cities and involved in…


  • The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

    Anish Acharya speaks with Olivia Moore about the latest edition of the a16z Top 100 AI Apps report. They cover why ChatGPT is still 30 times bigger than Claude on web, how the three major…


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