Sarah Wang, general partner at a16z, and Raghu Raghuram, managing partner at a16z, speak with Samar Abbas, CEO of Temporal, about how durable execution became the infrastructure layer behind the world's most used AI agents. They cover why long-running agents need state management and recoverability, how Temporal powers OpenAI's Codex and Snap's story processing, and why the shift from interactive to background agents is creating distributed systems problems at a scale that didn't exist two years ago. Check out everything a16z is doing with artificial intelligence here, including articles, projects, and more podcasts. Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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