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a16z's 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.

Founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on generative AI, as well as their experiences building with LLMs and dealing with LLM-based threats.

a16z's Zane Lackey and Joel de la Garza discuss the state of the cybersecurity market vis a vis generative AI, foundation models, and large language models — and explain why 2024 could be a watershed year for security teams.

Socket's Feross Aboukhadijeh joins a16z's Joel de la Garza to discuss the state of security for the open-source software supply chain, including how large language models can help both developers and security teams identify issues.

In this bonus episode from the a16z Podcast archives, set your wayback machine to the seemingly long ago summer of 2020, and enjoy a16z’s Sonal Chokshi and Frank Chen discussing GPT-3 and the advent of commercially available LLMs.

Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty discusses the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). He also shares insights and highlights from his decades-long career in machine learning.