The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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What listeners will find here
Nick Bostrom revisits superintelligence now that advanced AI is here
Superintelligence, existential risk, and AI’s upside take center stage as Nick Bostrom revisits ideas he helped popularize in light of today’s increasingly capable systems. The conversation ranges from reinforcement learning and agent behavior to consciousness, open source, mind uploading, and the simulation hypothesis.
Ben Horowitz on founder grit, investor judgment, and why AI may outscale the internet
Entrepreneurship, investing, and AI drive this wide-ranging conversation with Ben Horowitz. He reflects on becoming a first-time CEO, the brutal low points every founder faces, what great investors actually look for, and why AI could reshape who gets to build.
Pat Gelsinger on the real limits behind AI chips: memory, packaging, and power
Semiconductor innovation is the focus here, with Pat Gelsinger joining Raghu Raghuram and Guido Appenzeller to map the physical constraints shaping AI infrastructure. The conversation looks past chip design speed to the harder bottlenecks in manufacturing, memory bandwidth, networking, packaging, and energy.
How AWS Is Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agents
AI is reshaping cloud infrastructure, and AWS CEO Matt Garman explains how the company is responding. The conversation covers agent-driven software development, GPU allocation for startups, custom chips like Trainium and Graviton, and what enterprises need before trusting autonomous agents.
Why Valon took the hardest route to modernize mortgage servicing
This episode explores how Valon is rebuilding mortgage servicing for a $13 trillion market still running on pre-internet systems. Angela Strange talks with Andrew Wang and Linda Du about turning regulation into software, proving the model on their own loans, and using that foundation to bring AI into complex workflows.
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