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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 revolutionary impact of LLMs on analyzing unstructured data and documents (like letting banks verify identity and approve loans via WhatsApp) and shares his vision for how AI agents could take things even further (by automating actions based on those documents). In more detail, they discuss:Why legacy robotic process automation (RPA) struggles with unstructured inputs.How Instabase developed layout-aware models to extract insights from PDFs and complex documents.Why predictability, not perfection, is the key metric for generative AI in the enterprise.The growing role of AI agents at compile time (not runtime).A vision for decentralized, federated AI systems that scale automation across complex workflows.Follow everyone on X:Anant BhardwajGuido Appenzeller 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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