“If America is to win the AI race, we must embrace open innovation, incentivize entrepreneurship with low regulatory burdens, and ensure that the Jevons effect works in our favor. The future isn’t just about algorithms—it’s about the policies and culture that enable them to

Hardware engineers developing innovative technologies still rely on legacy physics-based simulations—slow, compute-intensive methods that haven’t improved in decades. That’s about to change. AI and the Promise of Hardware Iteration at Software Speed⬇️ a16z.com/ai-and-the-pro…

Excited to announce: Unify Agent Browser Use now runs on OpenAI’s powerful new Computer Use model. We’ve tested extensively, and it absolutely crushes open-source alternatives in automating complex web research tasks. Huge shoutout to LangChain and browserbase 🅱️, whose

American Dynamism.

Will lead your Series A if you can hang!

In December, I was 9 months pregnant sitting at home in the cold and dark during a 4-day power outage. That's when I knew, viscerally, that we needed a new type of power company. One that could meet the current moment in America. I delivered my baby and then immediately picked up

Introducing SBIRSpy.com - a better way to search and explore SBIR grants. I’ve always found it surprisingly hard to dig through SBIR topics and gather intel on winning companies and proposals — so I built the tool I always wished existed.

We set out to identify how we as investors in the robotics ecosystem can best support the growing community of robotics developers. Jacob Phillips built ARES as part of the commons for this growing community, based on many conversations with researchers and roboticists.

The “ChatGPT moment for robots” is coming soon, Jensen Huang says. But just HOW soon remains a question. The answer might be a function of how quickly we can advance the state of robotics data, evals, and foundation models. While testing single robots in a single lab might be

We spend time with a lot of robotics teams - researchers, indie developers, teams building commercial products. Data remains a huge challenge for everyone as they scale up their models. In an effort to give back to the community, Jacob Phillips from our team at a16z got to

The recent Sonnet release actually showed a small regression on MMMU, a visual reasoning benchmark, despite large advances in long-context reasoning for agentic coding and AIME. Excited to see better embodied reasoning benchmarks in the future!

28 miles, 5k vertical feet of elevation gain, 4 tiny bass, 1 unknown skull

Releasing updated data and datasets on Hugging Face! Now compatible with MLCommons Croissant metadata format. huggingface.co/datasets/jacob…