Can AI Help Save Lives? | Michael Chime (Prepared) x Kimberly Tan (a16z) In this episode, a16z partner Kimberly Tan sits down with Michael Chime, the CEO and co-founder of AI emergency response platform Prepared, for a powerful conversation about how AI is transforming public safety — starting with 911 call centers. They discuss how Prepared went from an idea in a Yale dorm room to a fast-growing platform augmenting emergency response nationwide. Michael shares insights into the company's go-to-market journ ...

Will software in some way replace teachers. Parents want better outcomes. What is actually improving retention of information, learning, memory.They're allowing a teacher to be a lot more productive and be 10 times better at their job. Will we see more parents like I want more of a truly AIdirected education for my kid. It's teachers who are willing to kind of pay and use this in their every single day workflow.We need the textbook companies to grow some innovation arms fast. I'm Justine and this is Olivia ...

50% of traffic is already bots. It's already automated and agents are only really just getting going. Most people are not using these computer use agents because they're too slow right now.They're still at previews, but it's clear that's where everything is going. Then we're going to see an explosion in the traffic coming from these tools. And just blocking them just because they're AI is the wrong answer.You've really got to understand why you want them, what they're doing, who they're coming from, and the ...

AI video completely taking over our social feeds in the span of a week, which is absolutely insane. V3 was sort of like the chat GBT moment for AI video. The next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be completely AI assisted.Like a world of possibilities has been opened up for AI storytelling, especially in video form. Yes, it's an exhausting time for AI creatives. It's great, but exhausting.[Music] I'm Justine. I'm Olivia and this is our very first edition of This Week in Consumer AI. So, we are both ...

Hi, my name is Justine and I'm a partner at a venture capital firm called A16Z where I invest in earlystage startups. I'm also a creator on the side. I love making and posting images and videos mostly using AI creative tools and I share them on X under the handle Venture Twins.I have been an AI video enthusiast for a long time. Right when the first models were coming out, I spend way too much time testing all of them. And one of the things I've realized is that especially now, it can be pretty overwhelming ...

So robot body process automation is literally if human had to do something you basically open some browser or whatever take some data put into some other system click some button and all that stuff. So it records that human clicks on that desktop and tries to keep repeating it. So you kind of like get that automated and the hard part that they had is you can't do robotic process for unstructured data because it's not fixed they change it.So anything will be very very brutal. The bet that we are taking is th ...