3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (478+ words) There’s a certain rhythm in the history of computing: we can call it the specialization turn. When a workload is varied and shifting—usually early in the lifecycle of that workflow—people pay for flexibility: nobody knows what tomorrow’s program…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (807+ words) Engineers who moved between major autonomy programs encountered a funny ritual. They left behind the tools they had used to develop and test autonomous systems, arrived at the next company, and began building those tools again. The industry had plenty…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (163+ words) This is not a gap incumbents can patch. They built durable platforms for the behavioral-detection era, and reworking that architecture to attribute every action and intent to both humans and synthetic agents would mean rebuilding from scratch. Most will add…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1030+ words) When deploying physical hardware or dealing with a diverse set of stakeholders, business models become uniquely unforgiving. In a way, this is a good definition for what an “American Dynamism” company actually is. As a result, hiring has higher stakes…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (245+ words) AI models have required rethinking the GPU stack. And now agents are doing the same thing for CPUs. Ironically, the direction compute has taken over the last decade has made it less suitable for AI. The driving forces have been…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (403+ words) That technology is wonderful. I can summon a (self-driving!) car or order groceries that show up in an hour. But almost none of it is what I’d point at if you asked me what makes a life worth living. A…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1320+ words) A16Z New Media is one year old! And we’ve had several portfolio companies (and other venture firms) ask us how our team works, how we built it, and how they might build their own. Here is what we share with them:…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (227+ words) The starting premise of tech companies is that technology is the leverage. But technology is not enough. Technology on its own, even if applied optimally and enthusiastically to solving business problems, eventually reaches its limits like anything else. Technology on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (183+ words) One of the biggest ways that AI is transforming work (and also one of the most taboo subjects inside companies at the moment) is that most work discussions are being recorded now by default. This wasn’t debated – it just happened....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (220+ words) Technology used to be a small segment of the economy. Now it’s how countries dominate – economically, militarily, culturally. That also means how founders win is evolving. The most ambitious founders are now building on a much larger scale and choosing…...