We're excited to do our first episode of of Katherine and I's new podcast series with A16Z where we run through the the stories of the internet. Eddie, thank you for being our our our first guest. I thought an appropriate topic to to to sort of begin as as we have you from from the crypto team. I'm I'm trying to do more of these mashup episodes with people from from different teams. Is one thing we see a little bit uh Katherine is some people say, "Oh, how is A6 andZ coherent in that they, you know, really ...

Why are hyperlinks blue. Cuz I like blue. Is that why.Yes. Nice firm color. It's easy to see.A lot of graphics computers at that time only had 256 total colors. You can kind of see all 256 colors. It's kind of like take your pick your pick.So, I mean, they they had to be something that like actually stood out on the page. And so, it was basically going to be blue, red, purple, green. I don't like those other colors.That's crazy. ...

The big thing that we are targeting is producing an automated researcher. So automating the discovery of new ideas. The next set of evals and milestone that we're looking at will involve actual movement on things that are economically relevant. And I was talking to some some high schoolers and they're saying, "Oh, you know, actually the default way to code is vibe coding. I I do think you know the future hopefully will be vibe researching. " Thanks for coming Jacob and Mark. Jacob, you're the chief scientis ...

Don't follow your passion. What you take out of the world over time is much less important than what you put into the world. And so my recommendation would be follow your contribution.Find the thing that you're great at. Put that into the world. Contribute to others.Help the world be better. Think for yourself. And that is the thing to. ...

If you're AI native, they need you. If you have a business background, which you can learn in school, and you become an AI native, you can walk into a small company and say, "I can help you." Right. There was. ...

The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power independent of their actual formal role in an organization or in the world. There are so few people who will write down the thing. We see this at companies all the time which is one of the ways you find like the upandcomers at a tech company.It's like, okay, who wrote down the. ...

There have been these big institutional players in DC in the state capitals for a very long time. There wasn't anyone who was actually advocating on behalf of the startups and entrepreneurs, the smaller builders in the space. They're trying to build models that might compete with Microsoft or OpenAI or Meta or Google for those companies.What are the regulatory frameworks that would actually work for them as opposed to making that competition even more difficult than it already is. Regulate use, do not regul ...

Hi, I'm Justine. And I'm Olivia. And welcome back to the A16Z podcast. Today we're going to be discussing the consumer AI top 100 list. So Olivia, let's start because you are compiling the list and you've been doing this for a while. What is this list and kind of what's the purpose of it? So this is our fifth time doing this list. We do it every six months. We started at basically the dawn of the consumer genai era. And the purpose is just to get a sense of what real consumers are actually using in AI. Uh s ...

Housing Market & Affordability - The US is short approximately 5 million housing units, requiring an additional 18% to 2 million units per year to prevent the shortage from worsening [1][12] - Technology can counter cost inflation in the housing sector, which historically has underinvested in tech compared to other industries [28] - AI-driven automation can significantly reduce labor costs, a major controllable expense for housing operators [29] - AI is helping to increase housing supply in areas that have relaxed zoning regulations [19][20] Elise AI's Solutions & Impact - Elise AI aims to enable fully autonomous buildings, where core operations run without human intervention [1][31] - Buildings using Elise AI have demonstrated 2% higher occupancy rates compared to the market average [15] - Elise AI's technology has helped customers like Equity Residential achieve up to 200 units per employee through centralized staff and AI communication [30] - Elise AI is expanding its AI solutions from housing to healthcare, focusing on automating administrative tasks and improving patient engagement [74][76] Future Vision - The ultimate vision is to reduce the percentage of household income spent on housing and healthcare from 42% to around 20% [3][96] - AI can facilitate greater mobility in the housing market by enabling shorter-term leases and reducing the labor required for apartment turnover [55][57]

The AI hardware race is heating up, and NVIDIA is still far ahead. What will it take to close the gap? In this episode, Dylan Patel (Founder & CEO, SemiAnalysis) joins Erin Price-Wright (General Partner, a16z), Guido Appenzeller (Partner, a16z), and host Erik Torenberg to break down the state of AI chips, data centers, and infrastructure strategy. We discuss: - Why simply copying NVIDIA won’t work, and what it takes to beat them - How custom silicon from Google, Amazon, and Meta could reshape the market - T ...