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We're excited to be backing @thinkymachines under @miramurati's leadership. 2 years ago, we asked her about the future of AI. This was her response:
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
New @a16z podcast - it's the battle of the agentic browsers! 🥊 I tested @diabrowser and @PerplexityComet for a week, to see if either could dethrone Google Chrome. Who emerged as my "winner"? 👇
Huge day for @slingshotai_inc. Ash is the first foundation model for real therapy designed to do what most AI won’t: challenge you to grow. Created to help a billion people access meaningful mental health support. Congrats to @danielreidcahn, @neilparikh, and the team.
It was an honor to speak with @Forbes about our decision @a16z to back @slingshotai_inc, the world's first foundation model for psychology. We believe the best founders tackle the biggest, messiest problems. Mental health access is one of them. @danielreidcahn and @neilparikh…
Our infra team breaks down the concept of “context engineering”: @martin_casado - “If you are going to call a model, you have to know what to put in the context… At some point you’re probably going to use traditional computer science." @JenniferHli - “What’s the new form…
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…
The Medicaid world needs @hifortunahealth more than ever: because of the relentless pace of federal and state Medicaid policy changes over the last few years, Medicaid eligibility is getting way more complex. A lot of the chatter has been focused on reduced eligibility, but…
Welcome to the era of self-eating software. In the old world, software disrupted taxis, sales, and back office. In the new world, AI is disrupting software itself. “The profession that I’ve dedicated my entire life to is being disrupted, and it’s very exciting because it’s…
a16z cofounder @pmarca on President Nixon’s failed plan to scale nuclear energy in America: “He saw the energy crisis coming.” “ He said it's a national imperative to build a thousand new nuclear power plants.” “ The bad news is, he created the EPA and the Nuclear Regulatory…
Clear rules for stablecoins and the road ahead At the White House today, the first piece of U.S. crypto legislation will be signed into law: the GENIUS Act. It provides clear rules for stablecoins. This is a historic moment — not just for crypto, but for the world at large.…
It was an honor to be present @WhiteHouse to see @POTUS sign into law America’s first crypto legislation. This is truly a historic moment. Stablecoins and crypto offer a full upgrade to the financial and payment systems. It offers an egalitarian system that doesn’t care about…
It is hard for me to put into words how excited I am about this. We @a16z are extremely proud to be associated with it.
1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵
The House just made history by passing major legislation on stablecoins (GENIUS Act) and market structure (CLARITY Act) in an overwhelmingly bipartisan way. This is a huge moment for crypto and for all Americans. We’re very close to having comprehensive, proactive rules in place…