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AI + a16z

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Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
AI Applications
Generative Models
Openllms
Nvidia
Mistral
Machine Learning
Chatgpt
Multimodal Models
Openai
AGI
Deep Learning
3D Models
Cyber Security
Hiring Process
Cybersecurity
Llama
Gpt-3
Large Language Models

Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.

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Latest Episodes

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 finds security vulnerabilities the way a human researcher would—by reading code, writing tes... more

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, CEO of Hex and former engineer at Palantir, joins a16z General Partner Sarah Wang to discus... more

Ian Webster built PromptFoo after watching 200 million Discord users systematically dismantle his AI agent—now Fortune 10 companies pay him to break theirs before customers do. The "lethal trifecta" sounds academic until you realize it's already happ... more

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 tools. They're everyday people accidentally building React apps through ChatGPT, then disco... more

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Beyang Liu
Co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph
Episode: From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
Ryo Lu
Head of Design at Cursor, previously at Notion and Asana
Cursor
Episode: Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
Omar Khattab
Assistant professor at MIT and creator of DSPy
MIT
Episode: How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
Ovais Tariq
Co-founder and CEO of Tigris Data, has a background in storage at Uber.
Tigris Data
Episode: Tigris Data CEO on Building Your Own Datacenters
Kevin Tian
Co-founder and CEO of Doppel Security
Doppel Security
Episode: When Deepfakes Steal $30M: The New Edge of Cybercrime
Michael Lingelbach
CEO and Co-founder of Hedra
Hedra
Episode: Models, Modalities, and Memes: Creating Compelling AI Characters
David Mytton
CEO of Arcjet
Arcjet
Episode: Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
Scott Clark
Co-founder and CEO of Distributional
Distributional
Episode: Building AI Systems You Can Trust
David Soria Parra
MCP Co-Creator and partner at Anthropic
Anthropic
Episode: MCP Co-Creator on the Next Wave of LLM Innovation

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Martin Casado
General partner at a16z, often discussing trends in AI and technology.

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4.6 out of 5 stars from 71 ratings
  • I love how it dives into the core of AI technology.

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“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
Q: Do you have any numbers that you can highlight on the usage of AI tools in web development?
Netlify's daily signups increased from 3,000 to 16,000, indicating a significant shift in the audience using their tools, including non-developers.
“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
Q: Can you describe what AX is?
AX stands for agent experience, which focuses on the evolution from user experience to accommodating AI agents as core users of products.
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
Q: What are the classes of vulnerabilities you're seeing with these agents?
The significant concerns include prompt injections, jail breaks, data leakage, and the overarching issue known as the lethal trifecta.
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
Q: What do you think an agent is and how are people thinking about agents at the current time?
An agent is what you get when you have a Language Model and allow it to take actions, interacting with the outside world.
When Deepfakes Steal $30M: The New Edge of Cybercrime
Q: What makes you think that non-security founders build the best security companies?
Non-security founders often bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to problems in the security space.

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