AI + a16z
Episodes 103 total
Evals, Feedback Loops, and the Engineering That Makes AI Work
Martin Casado speaks with Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, about where engineering actually matters in AI and where it doesn't. They cover the open s…
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later.In this episode…
Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES
Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal sit down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado on WSJ’s Bold Names to ask whether the AI spending…
Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI
In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing. He…
How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents
Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, Andreessen…
Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference lay…
How Should AI Be Regulated? Use vs. Development
To Regulate AI Effectively, Focus on How It’s UsedA conversation with Martin Casado on learning from past computing platform shifts, understanding marginal risk…
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever built. Curso…
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government
Nvidia’s $5 billion investment in Intel is one of the biggest surprises in semiconductors in years. Two longtime rivals are now teaming up, and the ripple effec…
Feed Drop from The Generalist: Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run
This episode is a special replay from The Generalist Podcast, featuring a conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado. Martin has lived through multipl…
Fei-Fei Li: World Models and the Multiverse
What if the next leap in artificial intelligence isn’t about better language—but better understanding of space?In this episode, a16z General Partner Erik Torenb…
Building the “See Something, Say Something” AI for Every Camera
a16z's Martin Casado sits down with Shikhar Shrestha, CEO and cofounder of Ambient, the company bringing agentic AI to physical security.Shikhar shares how a tr…
The AI That Found A Bug In The World’s Most Audited Code
Matt Knight spent five years as OpenAI’s CISO. Now he runs what colleagues call “the most interesting job at the company”: leading Aardvark, an AI agent that fi…
The Death of Data Gatekeeping: AI Makes Everyone An Analyst | Hex Cofounder
Most companies still rely on dashboards to understand their data, even though AI now offers new ways to ask questions and explore information. Barry McCardel, C…
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
Ian Webster built PromptFoo after watching 200 million Discord users systematically dismantle his AI agent—now Fortune 10 companies pay him to break theirs befo…
“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five times last year's rate—and 96% aren't coming from AI coding t…
From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese models powering America's AI future should terrify Washington. Whi…
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets designers ship code at the speed of thought: Cursor, the company…
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd accidentally invented a new paradigm that makes LLMs actually…
TruffleHog Creator: You Can’t Have AI Agents Without Secrets
If you can’t robustly protect your secrets, you can’t have reliable AI agents.In this episode, Truffle Security cofounder and CEO Dylan Ayrey joins a16z partner…