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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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.
OpenAI’s Codex has already shipped hundreds of thousands of pull requests in its first month. But what is it really, and how will coding agents change the future of software?
How do you build real-time, expressive AI video from first principles? Hedra CEO Michael Lingelbach joins a16z to discuss model architecture, UX tradeoffs, and why character-centric design unlocks the next wave of generative media.
Fal co-ounder and CEO Burkay Gur and head of engineering Batuhan Taskaya join a16z general partner Jennifer Li to discuss how they built a generative AI inference platform that's optimized for speed, performance, and user experience.
a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Metronome CEO Scott Woody to unpack how AI is fundamentally changing the value proposition of software—and why that shift demands a rethink of the traditional SaaS business model
Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma explores the evolution of data labeling and evaluation in AI — from early supervised learning to today’s sophisticated reinforcement learning loops.
dbt Labs co-founder and CEO Tristan Handy sits down with a16z's Jennifer Li and Matt Bornstein to explore the next chapter of data engineering — from the rise (and plateau) of the modern data stack to the growing role of AI in analytics and data engineering.
Arcjet CEO David Mytton on the increasing complexity of managing who — including bots, crawlers, and AI agents — can access websites, and other web apps, and what they can do there.
Instabase founder and CEO Anant Bhardwaj discusses the revolutionary impact of LLMs on analyzing unstructured data and documents, and shares his vision for how AI agents could take things even further.
LMArena cofounders Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica sit down with a16z general partner Anjney Midha to talk about the future of AI evaluation.
Distributional CEO Scott Clark discusses why it's critical to continuously test generative AI systems to ensure expected behavior. In inherently chaotic systems, small upstream changes can have big downstream effects.
a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li explore how generative AI is reshaping software development — from its potential as a new high-level programming abstraction to its current practical impacts.
Anthropic's David Soria Parra — who created MCP (Model Context Protocol) along with Justin Spahr-Summers — sits down with a16z's Yoko Li to discuss the project's inception, exciting use cases for connecting LLMs to external sources, and what's coming next for the project.
Partners on the a16z Infra team discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents. Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li dive into everything from how to distinguish between agents, LLMs, and functions, to how to think about pricing agents.
In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Sujay Jayakar, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Convex, to talk about his team’s latest work benchmarking AI agents on full-stack coding tasks.
a16z's Yoko Li and Resend's Zeno Rocha discuss how generative AI — powered by agents and, now, MCP — is reshaping the email experience for developers, as well as the overall world of programming.
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.
