Vijay Pande
@vijaypande
Founder, GP, & Managing Partner of a16z bio+health. Founder, Folding@home. Investor, Scientist, Engineer, Founder. AI, Bio, everything in between. http://a16z.com/bio
Interesting to consider AI in this context. Agree @JTLonsdale right now AI is vaguely midwit-y. Getting AI to the next stage (IQ ~140) will yield immediate impact on translating the smartest (IQ ~150+) of people for the rest of the world.
AI is currently very similar to my 115 IQ acquaintances- confidently opining incorrectly on politics, history, and econ with default lefty-conventional mindsets. It will be interesting to watch if we can get it up to 150 IQ and it learns to discern and apply higher-order logic.
Big congrats @neilparikh , @danielreidcahn , and the Slingshot team on your launch of Ash, the first AI built for therapy.
They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel and many more. We've had…
Super interesting idea -- a conference where AI is both the authors and reviewers. Curious to see where it goes @james_y_zou . But you know, the ultimate would be where the AI is also the organizers :-)
📢New conference where AI is the primary author and reviewer! agents4science.stanford.edu Current venues don't allow AI-written papers, so it's hard to assess the +/- of such works🤔 #Agents4Science solicits papers where AI is the main author w/ human advisors. 💡Initial reviews by…
This email from Thiel is clearly old but even more poignant today for NYC of course. I suspect this will take on a cyclical nature: NYC may be entering into what SF was a few years ago, with ideas of being more permissive on crime and more socialist leanings. But that will…
Peter Thiel on why 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist: “When one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time… and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”
What does "good times create weak men" look like quantitatively?
On the decline: patriotism, religion, family values, community On the rise: greed
⚠️ Ag tech experts: @DARPA's Biological Technologies Office #BTO is looking for your🫵 innovative ideas to catalyze future efforts to defend agriculture against threats both naturally occurring and manmade. Interest areas include: 🌱 Early Warning Systems 🌱Rapid Response…
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A new review electricrev.net/2025/05/30/eri… An excerpt @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… A video conversation w/ @vijaypande @a16z @YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=MueFKX…
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“We're ingrained in stupidity… we have to do better.” @EricTopol, Director of the @scrippsresearch Translational Institute, doesn’t hold back in this conversation with @vijaypande, @a16z general partner, about superagers—those rare individuals who avoid chronic disease and…
🤔 Training humanoid robots in hand to hand combat. What could go wrong?
“Mecha Combat Arena” will be broadcast live on Chinese national TV channels on May 25th at 8:30 PM China time.
For an inside look at how AI pioneers and investors @vijaypande and @mattmcilwain are thinking about the role of AI in biology, listen to this episode of the #TranslatingProteomics podcast: nautilus.bio/blog/translati… #Biotech #AI #Podcast #TranslatingProteomics
The next decade of building will construct the *new* modern world, an enormous change akin to going from horses & iceboxes to cars & electricity in the early part of the 20th century.
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Great to chat with you @EricTopol ! Your insights on how to fundamentally shift from sick care to prevention will help drive the revolution to radically improve healthcare.
My conversation with @vijaypande @a16z on promoting healthy aging app.magellan.ai/listen_links/S…