1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1552+ words) How can an AI model know when its work is done? Well, how does a human know when our work is done. A programmer waits for the tests to turn green or waits for PR review from their team. A…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (490+ words) Two years ago, Marc and Ben framed the Little Tech Agenda. The political, regulatory, and economic playing field had tilted toward Big Tech; a16z, they said, would fight to preserve startups’ ability to compete. Neoclouds emerged to build and serve computing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (612+ words) That logo you’re chasing is costing you your market. There are two GTM playbooks for AI companies selling into the enterprise: the Lighthouse and the Landgrab. The difference between them isn’t about product quality or team strength. It’s about what…...

2+ week, 1+ day 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…...

2+ week, 3+ day 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day 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…...

2+ week, 4+ day 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…...

3+ week, 1+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ 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, 2+ 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:…...