a16z Podcast

  • 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…

  • Financial Freedom, Company Building, More with David Marcus

    with @davidmarcus @smc90 This wide-ranging conversation covers company building, big to small — including what cadence and when is the right “time” to ship; the relationship between centralization, decentralization, platforms, and financial freedom; moving from…

  • When Business is Battle: Inside the Boardrooms of the CEOs that Survived the Storm

    Taking a company from idea to household name is always difficult. But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs off guard. In this episode, you’ll hear from two CEOs that…

  • The Worlds She Sees with Godmother of AI, Fei-Fei Li

    Fei-Fei Li, PhD,  Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande. In this candid conversation, Li unfolds her transformation…

  • From Sims to Sapiens: Crafting Reality with Code

    Is it possible to construct a virtual society that authentically replicates human behavior? AI Town, a virtual town experiment where AI residents live, interact, and engage, provides valuable insights into the future of AI’s believability…

  • Fintech Fuels Global Payments

    Software crosses borders effortlessly. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging. This is especially true for multinational businesses, which grapple with managing multiple accounts in diverse currencies, navigating costly foreign exchange rates, and…

  • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

    Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3SdsfNt Subscribe to The Ben & Marc Show on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3SclPOr Read the full manifesto: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/   This past week, Marc released his new vision…

  • A New Era of VR: From the Court to the Classroom

    As VR technology inches forward, completely new experiences loom on the horizon. In today’s episode, we expose listeners to the very real-world use cases already present on these devices, from fitness to education. First up…