.Chris Dixon explains that software can scale from nothing to hundreds of millions of users in a way no other industry can because of exponential forces. He points to three: Moore’s law, composability and network effects. Network effects are the gold standard but Moore’s law

AI Creative Tools: State of Play ✨ I spend most days testing the latest AI models & workflows across all forms of creative content - images, video, audio, 3D... For the first time, I'm dropping slides on where we're at + which tools I use for each task 👇

This is insanely cool - the krea guys are consistently pushing the boundaries of product+models

a16z speedrun visits canada!!! 🍁 cc Anish Acharya Umesh Khanna 🇨🇦🇺🇸 angela strange

🚨 Attention AI creative enthusiasts! Our team at a16z is a gallery party to celebrate AI art in NYC on 9/18. We have an INCREDIBLE artist lineup + founders at some of the coolest AI creative startups. I've been saving a few spots, DM or comment if you're interested 👀

coding agents have the same variable scheduled rewards property that make social networks so addictive - providing varying rewards at unpredictable time intervals fire off some feature ideas and return later to see the magic and chaos the next logical step is having the agents

1/ Today’s private markets set the stage for the next decade of tech value creation. When I got into growth investing, tech was niche in public and private markets. Since then, tech has eaten everything—yet most of its growth still hides behind the private-market curtain.

We estimate that OpenAI and Anthropic alone are adding almost half as much new revenue this year as all of the public SaaS universe, excluding the Mag 7.

Announcing HappyRobot's $44M Series B 🚀led by Base10 with participation from a16z, Array Ventures, avra, Samsara, Tokio Marine, WaVe-X, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Y Combinator, and other strategic investors. 🧵

congratulations HappyRobot on their $44M Series B. why they will win: - happy robot already works with many of the largest logistics providers in the world (DHL, Ryder, Werner etc) and the resulting growth has been explosive with this new round coming just months after