a16z Podcast

  • Why a16z is Building a New School for the AI Era | Ben Horowitz

    Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Gagan Biyani to introduce the Horowitz and Andreessen Academy and discuss a bigger question: what should education look like when AI is rapidly changing the skills people…


  • AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

    a16z Board Partner and former Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to argue that the language we use to describe AI failures is making it harder to understand…


  • Nas, Grandmaster Caz, Steve Stoute & Ben Horowitz on Paying Hip-Hop’s Pioneers Their Due

    Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with Nas, Grandmaster Caz, and Steve Stoute for a conversation about the Paid in Full Foundation and its mission to recognize and support the pioneers who built hip-hop.…


  • What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

    a16z Partner Josh Elman joins Ollie Forsyth on New Economies to discuss the next wave of consumer AI and what separates a product people try once from one that becomes part of their everyday lives.…


  • Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise

    Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi joins a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang for a conversation about AI risk, recursive self-improvement, cybersecurity, and what’s actually holding back enterprise adoption. Ali argues that today’s…


  • The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

    a16z General Partner Jennifer Li sits down with fal co-founder Gorkem Yurtseven and Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya to discuss what changes when generative video becomes fast enough to run in real time. They unpack…


  • The AI-Native CRM

    a16z’s Alex Rampell and Joe Schmidt sit down with Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss what it takes to rethink the CRM for an AI-native world, and the unusual pivot that got him…


  • The Age of Body Futurism | Ruby Justice Thelot

    Elena Burger sits down with academic and cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot to explore the increasingly blurry line between internet culture and the real world, and how to tell the difference between a trend that’s…


  • Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era

    Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman to discuss why he believes AI has entered a new phase, what OpenAI’s latest models reveal about the path to AGI,…


  • World Models, Robotics, and the Future of 3D AI

    World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to discuss Atlas, World Labs’ latest world model, and the broader case for AI systems that understand and interact with the physical…


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