We're excited to be backing Thinking Machines under Mira Murati's leadership. 2 years ago, we asked her about the future of AI. This was her response:

Great read from Anish Acharya. We’ve already seen that consumers are willing to pay for AI, but higher and higher willingness to pay (and wait for results async) is likely the best reflection of the actual value they’re getting from apps that go deep to solve problems

Minted

Well said 👏

Congratulations to Dylan Field, Praveer and the Figma team on going public. When we originally invested, we said we were entering the decade of design. Amazing how much that has happened. Thanks for letting us at a16z be part of the journey.

Congrats Dylan Field and the entire Figma team for this unbelievable ride! Watching you navigate these last few years has been a masterclass. Let’s go $FIG!

Congrats to the Fal team! 🎉🎉🎉 Lit launch party 😎 Gorkem Yurtseven Burkay Gur batuhan the fal guy

never ask a man his salary a women her age or lina khan how many figma shares she owns

Congrats Nicolas Kopp and Rillet team! We’re beyond excited to support you!

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 in 1996 with Charlie Rose: "The internet is everywhere. In 10 years, we probably won’t even be talking about the internet." Everyone connected. Any network. Infinite use cases. The internet became the substrate. Everything else followed.

ambitious and humble and eloquent what a class act Mati Staniszewski on Bloomberg TV hats off to the ElevenLabs on a killer music model release

Congrats Anne Lee Skates on launching Parable!! 💪🎉🍾

the a16z pod is nothing without its people We are breaking down everything you need to know about GPT-5 with the @openai team. 📸 Sarah Wang Erik Torenberg christina kim Isa Fulford

I’ve been lucky to work with @openai since 2021, but this was the first time sitting down with the people actually building GPT-5 and ChatGPT Agent. christina kim and Isa Fulford shared such a clear view into how these models are made and what the team prioritizes as they build

Sarah Wang OpenAI christina kim Isa Fulford love seeing these conversations happen — feels good when the humans behind me get their spotlight too

fun to share more about agents and talk about research at openai with christina kim! thank you Erik Torenberg and Sarah Wang for having us on the pod

a very good yap about GPT-5 + agents with Isa Fulford. wild to think about the evolution from webgpt to chatgpt and now to GPT-5! thank you Erik Torenberg + Sarah Wang for having us!