95% of what we are doing in AI is stuff that's simple enough to explain to a child, made way over-complicated by mathematical-looking notation and unclear thinking. A short rant 🧵 using attention as an example.

Willl never forget all the people who had known Brendan for years and worked with him defending him in private but never defending him in public. Was an act of cowardice.

Watch what Andreas Kling is doing.

The concept I find myself explaining the most - and inspires the most people - is decentralization.

Voice notes are evil.

This may be true at other venture firms, but it is 100% not true at a16z! One of the main things we want from our younger partners is great investment ideas, leads on killer startups.

It has been fascinating to watch the impact of Caitlin Clark. It’s not just people watching the games or her being a celebrity.

She has now elevated several other players and fans now follow storylines around them.

Angel Reeves, Hailey Van Lith and many others and all of a…

Today we're sharing our biggest open source release yet: Jolt Alpha, our zkVM built new from the ground up. The UX is excellent and it's time to share what we've learned. In short: it's fast and concise.

Learn more below!

1/ We're excited to share the initial release of Jolt, a new approach to zkVM design. Early benchmarks indicate it outperforms RISC Zero by ~6x and SP1 by up to 2x. Major optimizations are still in the pipeline.

just look at the comments on this. insane.

Today, we’re excited to announce that a16z crypto led the initial funding round for KIKI World! KIKI is a community commerce company that centers its customers by positioning them as co-creators and co-owners of products through leveraging web3 tech.

Historically, there's been…

One of many notes Aarthi Ramamurthy and I got for our episode with Deedy on skilled immigration.

This is from someone in the a16z family I haven’t met yet - sharing with permission. Many many many such stories.

📣🚀🧠 We are thrilled to welcome Erin Price-Wright as our newest partner a16z. From her years Palantir to investing in AI and Infra, Erin joins our team to invest in the best founders building in the national interest. Read more: a16z.com/erin-price-wri…

I would like to thank Deedy Aarthi Ramamurthy Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth from the bottom of my heart for the show. We need more of us join the advocacy. Ya’ll are doing lord’s work.

Please comment on the episode The Aarthi and Sriram Show

This would be difficult to watch. I decided to try and get an EB-1 right after I did some math on how long it would take via other paths as soon as I got my degrees. I told myself that if I didn’t get the green card that way, I’d just move to another country/back to India instead…

I’m going to start posting some of the responses to our episode on skilled immigration.

Some of the most emotional ones we have ever gotten, makes you aware how deep and painful this issue is.

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth Deedy Aarthi Ramamurthy Very important to make it easy for talented people to immigrate to America!

Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth Deedy Aarthi Ramamurthy Great episode and one of the most important topics of our time.

Improving immigration and path to naturalization for skilled esp tech folks is probably one of the biggest levers to ensure continued technological edge of US … and imo generally tech advancement for humanity.