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Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.

  1. The Best Way to Achieve AGI Is to Invent It

    5 DAYS AGO

    The Best Way to Achieve AGI Is to Invent It

    Longtime machine-learning researcher Pedro Domingos joins a16z General Partner Martin Casado to discuss the state of artificial intelligence, whether we're really on a path toward AGI, and the value of expressing unpopular opinions.

    38 min
  2. Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity

    25 OCT

    Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity

    a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on the recent collection of Nobel Prizes awarded to AI researchers in both Physics and Chemistry. He talks through how early work on neural networks in the 1980s spurred continuous advancement in the field — even through the "AI winter" — which resulted in today's extremely useful AI technologies.

    40 min
  3. How GPU Access Helps AI Startups Be Agile

    23 OCT

    How GPU Access Helps AI Startups Be Agile

    GPU access is like oxygen to AI startups: without it, they can't breathe. Here, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha explains the forces that lead to GPU shortages and price spikes, and how the firm mitigates these concerns for portfolio companies.

    39 min
  4. DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models

    27 SEPT

    DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models

    Bowen Peng and Jeffrey Quesnelle of Nous Research join a16z General Partner Anjney Midha to discuss their mission to keep open source AI research alive and activate the community of independent builders. The focus is on a recent project called DisTrO, which demonstrates it's possible to train AI models across the public internet much faster than previously thought possible.

    1h 13m
  5. Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications

    13 SEPT

    Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications

    Ambience cofounder and chief scientist Nikhil Buduma discusses the nuances of using AI models to build vertical applications (including in his space, health care), and why industry acumen is at least as important as technical expertise.

    43 min
  6. AI, SQL, and the End of Big Data

    30 AUG

    AI, SQL, and the End of Big Data

    MotherDuck cofounder and CEO Jordan Tigani discusses DuckDB's spiking popularity as the era of big data wanes, as well as the applicability of SQL-based systems for AI workloads and the prospect of text-to-SQL for analyzing data.

    33 min
  7. The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models

    16 AUG

    The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models

    Black Forest Labs founders Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser sit down with a16z general partner Anjney Midha to discuss their journey from PhD researchers to Stability AI, and now to launching their own company that emphasizes open models.

    37 min
  8. Why Computer Science Subsumed Biotech

    9 AUG

    Why Computer Science Subsumed Biotech

    a16z General Partner Vijay Pande walks us through the past two decades of applying software engineering to the life sciences — from the Folding@Home project that he launched, through AlphaFold and more. He also discusses the major opportunities for AI to transform medicine and health care, as well as some pitfalls that founders in that space need to watch out for.

    47 min
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Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.

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