a16z Podcast
Technology & AIby Andreessen Horowitz
Discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future — especially as 'software eats the world'. Features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers.
Recent Episodes
What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado
LLMs perform mathematically precise Bayesian inference. That capability, while remarkable, is also the ceiling: they cannot update weights after training and cannot move from correlation to causation....
AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore
AI startups can still build durable businesses against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but only in categories the labs will never prioritize. Olivia Moore (partner at a16z) maps where the gaps are, why O...
Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra
The world is primitive relative to what technology makes possible, and the founders willing to build anyway are the primary engine of progress. Marc Andreessen and David Senra cover founder psychology...
Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon
Emil Michael (Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Acting Director of the Defense Innovation Unit) argues that commercial AI vendors with restrictive usage terms embedded in critica...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race
The West's AI advantage over China and Russia is real, was demonstrated in recent military operations, and is at risk if Silicon Valley refuses to align with the defense establishment. Alex Karp, co-f...
What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO
Flock Safety solves crime at scale by building infrastructure that law enforcement previously lacked: real-time license plate readers, drones, 911 integration, and an AI orchestration layer. Garrett L...
The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
ChatGPT reaches 900 million signups but only 10% of the global population weekly. Six editions into a16z's Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report, the three major platforms are developing distinct identi...