Happy to see this new podcast live! Check out the first two episodes to hear Naveen Rao Matt Bornstein and I discuss a bunch of topics around enterprise LLMs, and an open source panel discussion led by Anjney Midha .

Introducing the AI + a16z podcast.

A new channel to give the full context of the past, present & future of AI with the builders & experts shaping it.

From infrastructure that powers today's foundation models to how tools like LLMs are reshaping industries – join us for weekly…

[NEW LAUNCH] 0/ 🎥 AI Multi-modal Starter Kit✨: Drop a video to Tigris Data and get AI video understanding & narration right away (😄demo narrated by the voice of Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸)

Stack:
- 💻 Video and Image hosting: Tigris Data
- 🦙 Inference: ollama (LLaVA Haotian Liu, BakLLaVA…

'Stop thinking about getting a 10-30% on your job. Tell me in 5 to 10 years how you gonna reimagine your job.' ~ Nand Mulchandani

Great discussion with CIA CTO, Derrick Harris and martin_casado .

youtube.com/watch?v=5uQm-q…

Our inaugural meetup supporting OSS AI was a blast! 🚀

▶️ An amazing discussion with @Percyliang, jzemlin MitchellBaker, moderated by Anjney Midha
▶️ A report on OSS AI by Matt Bornstein and I
▶️ > 100 folks shaping OSS AI, including 24 co-hosts

0/ Prediction from Jennifer Li and I: The AI infrastructure will be divided into two markets this year: LLM vs diffusion models.

Developer tools powering the creative market will see tremendous growth.

Here’s why🧵 and what devs should know👇

Can't believe Pedro Pascal wore MNIST to the Golden Globes

Doctors Warn Overuse of White Noise Machines For Babies Could Lead to More Drone Metal Bands thehardtimes.net/music/doctors-… < this is a very real concern

If you're wondering where sustained innovation in AI will come from, this discussion b/w Arthur Mensch and Anjney Midha makes the case for open models and active developer communities. a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/safet…

I'm all for legislation that funds AI research (like CREATE AI's proposal for NAIRR). Let's do more of this. And less of the 'stifling innovation for no real reason'

Big congrats to the UWEC Women’s Club Rugby team for winning back-to-back DII 15s National Championships! #BlugoldProud

Extra shout out to two Blugolds who received tournament awards: Greta Schnur with the Soul Award and Izzy Currie as the tournament MVP!

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✨NEW LAUNCH! 💫 JungleGym, a set of open-source datasets and tools to test/build autonomous web agents.

📝Lack of testing AI agents is a big hurdle. We hope this small open-source contribution helps:

✅Playground: JungleGym.ai
✅GitHub Repo: github.com/a16z-infra/Jun…

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Watch the full episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=d-hNCm…

1/ We’ve submitted a letter to President Biden regarding the AI Executive Order and its potential for restricting open source AI. We believe strongly that open source is the only way to keep software safe and free from monopoly. Please help amplify.

'Governments officials consider Playstation 2, in the wrong hands, a military weapon'

🚨🆘📡 AI and advanced technology has wildly improved how we work and play, now it's time to use it to save lives and help first responders. Read more in my piece: The Superhero Stack a16z.com/the-superhero-…

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