Relics from ye olden days

For many, DeepSeek's rise was unexpected. But what can we learn from prior internet waves about what might happen next? martin_casado and Steven Sinofsky joined the a16z Podcast to discuss what drove the DeepSeek frenzy and more importantly, what we should take away, through the lens

🚨 New a16z podcast: DeepSeek R1, Reinforcement Learning and scaling Test-Time Compute. We dove deep into DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model and several of their releases, exploring how they trained R1-Zero and R1, how these models work, and what that means for the future of

[New post] 🔥A Deep Dive Into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling APIs were the internet’s first great unifier but AI models lack an equivalent. What are the use cases of MCPs today? Where are the challenges? Here's a technical deep dive & map of the current ecosystem 👇

Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch believe every nation needs its own AI strategy. They joined Anjney Midha 🇺🇸 on the a16z podcast to break down why AI isn't just computing infrastructure—it’s cultural infrastructure. A 🧵on sovereign AI and why the stakes are enormous 👇

🚨 New: We a16z built an 8x RTX 4090 GPU AI workstation from scratch —compatible with the new RTX 5090 with PCIe 5.0, for training, deploying, and running AI models locally— so you don’t have to. Here’s how we built it, why it matters, and how you can build one too. Full

Everyone has a different definition of "agent": Guido Appenzeller Matt Bornstein and I had a fun debate about this last week 👇 - How to distinguish between agents, LLMs, and functions - How to think about pricing agents - Whether a uniform definition of agent actually exists

I had a conversation with the co-creator of MCP David Soria Parra about the inception story of MCP as well as the net new, creative workflows MCP brings that we rarely talked about Outside of dev workflows, I think we will see the next MCP client for art canvas, mini games and more 👇

AI coding isn’t just a hype cycle — it could represent trillions worth of developer productivity. From Copilot to Cursor, AI is already changing how millions code; not someday, but now. Listen to the full conversation on how the future of coding is being rewritten — and what

On a new episode of The Ben & Marc Show, Rick Rubin joins us to talk about "the punk rock of coding," and why it has resonated with him so much👇

Fal just raised a $125M Series C. What you see on the platform today looks nothing like what they were building 3 years ago when I first invested at Seed. That evolution has been one of the most important lessons for me as a venture investor. a 🧵

We’re co-leading Pylon’s Series B with our friends at Bain Capital Ventures. I’m excited to double down on this amazing team and continue to support their ambition. 1/

We a16z think the next top use cases with code generation will be building internal tools. Gabriel Vasquez Steph Zhang and I wrote about this in our latest blog 👇

babe wake up, new a16z GPU build just dropped

[New Release] 🎉 Vestaboard MCP server: Let Cursor agent control your Vestaboard and make art! Have Cursor agent generate art, quotes, or reminders and push real-time updates. Demoed at Cursor power user meetup last night & releasing today. Link below👇

🚨 [New investment] We a16z are leading the seed round in Phota Labs: founded by ex-Adobe researchers Cecilia Zhang Zach (Zhihao) Xia: they’ve solved one of the hardest problems in GenAI: generating truthful identity & context in photos Some wild Phota Labs generated examples 🧵

America cannot loose the robotics race with China. We're behind and the implications are far greater than previous races like solar & telecom/5g. We must prioritize national policy and investment to support US robotics end to end 🦾

Today, Ekin Dogus Cubuk and I are excited to introduce Periodic Labs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist. Science works by conjecturing how the world might be, running experiments, and learning from the results. Intelligence is necessary, but not sufficient. New knowledge is

We’re leading a $300M founding round for Periodic Labs. Science today is bottlenecked by slow, manual experimentation. Periodic is changing that. They’re building AI scientists paired with autonomous laboratories that can hypothesize, experiment, and iterate at speeds impossible

America is celebrating its AI software lead. But we're missing the bigger picture. China has more robots in production than the rest of the world combined. Unitree is selling advanced humanoids for $5,900. China has entire "dark factories" factories that run with zero humans.