The Death of Data Gatekeeping: AI Makes Everyone An Analyst | Hex Cofounder
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most companies still rely on dashboards to understand their data, even though AI now offers new ways...
Why Social Engineering Now Works on Machines
02 Dec 2025
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Ian Webster built PromptFoo after watching 200 million Discord users systematically dismantle his AI...
“Anyone Can Code Now” - Netlify CEO Talks AI Agents
28 Nov 2025
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Netlify's CEO, Matt Biilmann, reveals a seismic shift nobody saw coming: 16,000 daily signups—five...
From Code Search to AI Agents: Inside Sourcegraph's Transformation with CTO Beyang Liu
25 Nov 2025
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Sourcegraph's CTO just revealed why 90% of his code now comes from agents—and why the Chinese mode...
Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers
21 Nov 2025
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Ryo Lu spent years watching his designs die in meetings. Then he discovered the tool that lets desig...
How Foundation Models Evolved: A PhD Journey Through AI's Breakthrough Era
18 Nov 2025
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The Stanford PhD who built DSPy thought he was just creating better prompts—until he realized he'd...
TruffleHog Creator: You Can’t Have AI Agents Without Secrets
11 Nov 2025
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If you can’t robustly protect your secrets, you can’t have reliable AI agents.In this episode, T...
Tigris Data CEO on Building Your Own Datacenters
07 Nov 2025
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In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Ovais Tariq, Cofounder and CEO of...
Pylon: Reimagining B2B Customer Support
31 Oct 2025
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Customer support platforms lacked adequate solutions for B2B companies - until Pylon entered the sce...
Keycard: 2026 is the Year of Agents
22 Oct 2025
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In 2025, we saw the first glimpses of true AI agents. In 2026, every company will be rushing to get ...
The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development Stack
10 Oct 2025
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AI coding has emerged as a major market for AI: one that’s already rewriting how software gets bui...
Material Security CEO: How To Find Your Ideal Customer
06 Oct 2025
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What if the hardest part of building a company isn’t the product, but knowing exactly who it’s f...
When Deepfakes Steal $30M: The New Edge of Cybercrime
26 Sep 2025
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AI is transforming both sides of the cybersecurity cat-and-mouse game. Attackers are using LLMs to s...
How AI Will Change Photography Forever
17 Sep 2025
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What if you could retake your favorite memories years after they happened, fixing the lighting, catc...
How OpenAI Built Its Coding Agent
29 Aug 2025
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OpenAI’s Codex has already shipped hundreds of thousands of pull requests in its first month. But ...
Models, Modalities, and Memes: Creating Compelling AI Characters
14 Aug 2025
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Models, Modalities, and Memes: Creating Compelling AI CharactersIn this episode of AI + a16z, Hedra ...
Performance and Passion: Fal's Approach to AI Inference
01 Aug 2025
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If you've been experimenting with image, video, and audio models, the chances are you've been both b...
How to Vibe Code Securely
25 Jul 2025
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In this episode, a16z partner Joel de la Garza sits down with Socket founder and CEO Feross Aboukhad...
AI Is Upending SaaS Pricing
18 Jul 2025
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In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Metronome CEO Scott Woody to unpack how AI is ...
The AI Infrastructure Stack with Jennifer Li
11 Jul 2025
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In this episode, which originally aired on the Complex Systems Podcast, a16z General Partner Jennife...
AI's Unsung Hero: Data Labeling and Expert Evals
27 Jun 2025
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Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma joins a16z Infra partner Matt Bornstein to explore the evolution of data la...
AI, Data Engineering, and the Modern Data Stack
20 Jun 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, dbt Labs founder and CEO Tristan Handy sits down with a16z's Jennifer ...
Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
13 Jun 2025
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Arcjet CEO David Mytton sits down with a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discuss the increasing compl...
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
06 Jun 2025
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Instabase founder and CEO Anant Bhardwaj joins a16z Infra partner Guido Appenzeller to discuss the r...
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
30 May 2025
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LMArena cofounders Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica sit down with a16z gen...
Building AI Systems You Can Trust
23 May 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Distributional cofounder and CEO Scott Clark, and a16z partner Matt Bo...
Who's Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software Development
16 May 2025
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In this episode of the a16z AI podcast, a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Y...
MCP Co-Creator on the Next Wave of LLM Innovation
02 May 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Anthropic's David Soria Parra — who created MCP (Model Context Proto...
What Is an AI Agent?
28 Apr 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li dis...
Benchmarking AI Agents on Full-Stack Coding
28 Mar 2025
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In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Sujay Jayakar, co-founder and Chi...
Automating Developer Email with MCP and Al Agents
21 Mar 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Resend founder and CEO Zeno Rocha sits down with a16z partner Yoko L...
The Future of Digital Workers
20 Mar 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z Partner Joe Schmidt sits down with 11x CTO Prabhav Jain for an in...
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
14 Mar 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Sesame Cofounder and CTO Ankit Kumar joins a16z general partner Anjney...
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
07 Mar 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Netlify CEO and Cofounder Matt Biilmann joins a16z General Partner Mar...
What DeepSeek Means for Cybersecurity
28 Feb 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a trio of security experts join a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discu...
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
21 Feb 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Aatish Nayak, head of product at Harvey, sits down with a16z partner K...
Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z partner Alex Immerman sits down with Hebbia founder and CEO Georg...
Data Management for Enterprise LLMs
07 Feb 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Fivetran cofounder and CEO George Fraser and a16z partner Guido Appenz...
From NLP to LLMs: The Quest for a Reliable Chatbot
10 Jan 2025
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z General Partner Martin Casado and Rasa cofounder and CEO Alan Nic...
Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
27 Dec 2024
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A 2024 highlight reel, featuring founders sharing their insights, advice, and experiences building A...
Can AI Agents Finally Fix Customer Support?
18 Dec 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Decagon cofounder/CEO Jesse Zhang and a16z partner Kimberl...
REPLAY: Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market
30 Nov 2024
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This is a replay of our first episode from April 12, featuring Databricks VP of AI Naveen Rao and a1...
Building Developers Tools, From Docker to Diffusion Models
15 Nov 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Replicate cofounder and CEO Ben Firshman, and a16z partner Matt Bornst...
The Best Way to Achieve AGI Is to Invent It
04 Nov 2024
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Longtime machine-learning researcher, and University of Washington Professor Emeritus, Pedro Domingo...
Neural Nets and Nobel Prizes: AI's 40-Year Journey from the Lab to Ubiquity
25 Oct 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha shares his perspective on the recent coll...
How GPU Access Helps AI Startups Be Agile
23 Oct 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, General Partner Anjney Midha explains the forces that lead to GPU shor...
DisTrO and the Quest for Community-Trained AI Models
27 Sep 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Bowen Peng and Jeffrey Quesnelle of Nous Research join a16z General Pa...
Balancing AI Expertise and Industry Acumen in Vertical Applications
13 Sep 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, Ambience cofounder and chief scientist Nikhil Buduma joins Derrick Har...
AI, SQL, and the End of Big Data
30 Aug 2024
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In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z General Partner Jennifer Li joins MotherDuck Cofounder and CEO Jo...
The Researcher to Founder Journey, and the Power of Open Models
16 Aug 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Black Forest Labs founders Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattman...
Why Computer Science Subsumed Biotech
09 Aug 2024
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In this episode, a16z General Partner Vijay Pande walks us through the past two decades of applying ...
Democratizing Generative AI Red Teams
02 Aug 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Anjney Midha speaks with PromptFoo fo...
Augmenting Incident Response with LLMs
26 Jul 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Command Zero cofounder and CTO Dean de Beer joins a16z's J...
Scaling AI for the Coming Data Deluge
19 Jul 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Anyscale cofounder and CEO Robert Nishihara joins a16z's J...
ARCHIVE: The Dream of AI Is Alive in AlphaGo
05 Jul 2024
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In this archive episode from 2015, a16z's Sonal Chokshi, Frank Chen, and Steven Sinofsky discuss Dee...
Beyond Language: Inside a Hundred-Trillion-Token Video Model
03 Jul 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Luma Chief Scientist Jiaming Song joins a16z General Partn...
Developer Tool UX in the Age of Generative AI
21 Jun 2024
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In this episode, design engineer Alasdair Monk joins a16z's Yoko Li and Derrick Harris to discuss ho...
Building Production Workflows for AI Applications
14 Jun 2024
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In this episode, Inngest cofounder and CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown joins a16z partner Yoko Li, as well ...
The Future of Image Models Is Multimodal
07 Jun 2024
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In this episode, Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi joins a16z General Partner Jennifer Li, as well as De...
ARCHIVE: Open Models (with Arthur Mensch) and Video Models (with Stefano Ermon)
24 May 2024
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For this holiday weekend (in the United States) episode, we've stitched together two archived episod...
Open Models and Maturation: Assessing the Generative AI Market
17 May 2024
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a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Matt Bornstein join Derrick Harris to discuss the state of the g...
Security Founders Talk Shop About Generative AI
15 May 2024
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In this bonus episode, recorded live at our San Francisco office, security-startup founders Dean De ...
How to Think About Foundation Models for Cybersecurity
10 May 2024
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In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Zane Lackey and a16z Partner Joel de ...
Securing the Software Supply Chain with LLMs
03 May 2024
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Socket Founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joins a16z's Joel de la Garza and Derrick Harris to discu...
ARCHIVE: GPT-3 Hype
01 May 2024
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In this episode, though, we’re traveling back in time to distant — in AI years, at least — pas...
Vector Databases and the Power of RAG
26 Apr 2024
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Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty joins a16z's Satish Talluri and Derrick Harris to discuss the p...
Remaking the UI for AI
19 Apr 2024
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a16z General Partner Anjney Midha joins the podcast to discuss what's happening with hardware for ar...
Making the Most of Open Source in AI
12 Apr 2024
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There are few terms in the world of AI — if any — that invoke more of a reaction than a simple f...
Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market
12 Apr 2024
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Naveen Rao, vice president of generative AI at Databricks, joins a16z's Matt Bornstein and Derrick H...
Welcome to the AI + a16z podcast
08 Apr 2024
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The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on AI across a broad swath of areas, from the infrastruc...