How can AI startups compete with Big Tech’s massive compute and data scale advantages?

benahorowitz.eth and Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 unpack the current 'State of AI' as it relates to building a company on the latest 'Ben & Marc Show'.

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Just 60 days after opening up embedded apps, Discord devs have shipped 20K+ apps generating 4B+ mins of usage 🚀

How did it become such a massive developer platform?

Join Jason Citron and me for an a16z podcast tour of the 10 year overnight success story, and what's next 🎙️🧵

Please enjoy benahorowitz.eth and me answering questions on the current state of AI!

01:14 How AI startups can compete with the bigger players
05:57 Will the 'God models' get 100x better?
09:19 Counter argument: Are the tests too simple?
10:14 Internet data represents average human…

2024 could be a watershed year for cybersecurity, as more enterprises begin deploying LLMs and more startups apply AI to security in meaningful ways.

zane and Joel de la Garza explain in this episode of the AI + a16z podcast 🎧: a16z.com/podcast/how-to…

The a16z consumer team is headed to NYC!

We're throwing a gallery party on June 27 to celebrate AI art (featuring some special guests).

We have spots open for creators, artists, and founders of creative tools companies - we'd love to see you there:

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Today, A16Z GAMES is thrilled to lead the $5M seed round for yellow3d, who's revolutionizing 3D character creation with generative AI and is developed by a team of top academics.

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AI is going to have its biggest impact on Bio, which in many ways is a pre Industrial Revolution, bespoke, artisanal process.

As exciting as it is, this is just a small sign of what’s to come over the next two decades.

The landscape for defencetech companies is changing 🚀

Katherine Boyle of a16z explains how this mega-trend is changing the industry...

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Today we're delighted to launch Audio Inpainting, an innovative feature that allows you to seamlessly edit and refine your audio tracks.

With Audio Inpainting, you can select a portion of a track to re-generate based on the surrounding context. This makes it easy to edit single…

From robocalls to data breaches and misinformation —how are LLMs influencing both offensive and defensive strategies?

OpenAI’s Matt Knight, Anthropic’s Jason D. Clinton, and DeepMind’s Vijay Bolina join a16z's Joel de la Garza to discuss how LLMs are reshaping cybersecurity.…

Before Jeff Sloan took over as CEO of Global Payments Inc. in 2013, GPN was a $3B market cap company with a rifle shot distribution strategy.

Today, GPN boasts a $32B market cap, powering payments for companies in 100+ verticals.

Jeff’s secret? Placing multiple bets.

On Ep 3 of In…