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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.

a16z General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on how hardware for artificial intelligence will improve —especially at the inference layer — and what that means for how we'll build, train, and interact with AI models.

a16z General Partner Anjney Midha leads an insightful panel discussion about what the AI community can learn from past open source efforts. Panelists include Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation), Mitchell Baker (Mozilla), and Percy Liang (Stanford / Together AI).

Naveen Rao of Databricks — and former founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML — shares his thoughts on the state of large language models (LLMs), how they'll evolve, and how enterprises will adopt them.