Guido Appenzeller

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The a16z Show · What Is an AI Agent? · 22 May 2025 podcast

with a couple of LLMs calls, you can run at a very low cost. matched

And the cost is decreasing over time. matched

I mean, y long term you'd expect pretty healthy margins, just like in SAS, right? matched

Which software traditionally has very good margins. matched

It could be used by either, right? matched

It could be used by the other. matched

It doesn't feel like a true friend if you matched

happier. matched

Plus a very strong brand, plus you have a little bit of network effect because you can play together. matched

Yeah, matched

Super interesting question, right? matched

What's the systems perspective of how an agent is built? matched

And I I personally think that matched

Architecturally. matched

There really is no difference between your typical SARS software today and agent in terms of it how you build it, right? matched

And let me explain why, right? matched

So an agent, we said you have sort of an overall loop with an LLM and prompts that feeds into itself plus external tool use. matched

The LLM itself, you probably want to run a separate infrastructure just because it's highly specialized. matched

You need these vast GPU farms, can't easily run today's large LMs in a single GPU. matched

So that's that's a very specialized infrastructure that's external. matched

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