Martin Casado on why artificial intelligence is the wrong term and why a16z's new fund is called the Machine Age Fund:
"Artificial intelligence was the wrong word. It's machine intelligence... because it's not how humans think. It is a cache of human thought."
"To date, we
Today, a16z is announcing the Machine Age Fund, a new $1.1 billion fund for founders rebuilding what intelligence runs on: chips, memory, networking, systems software, power, and the machines that bring AI into the physical world.
Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, and Raghu Raghuram
Raghu Raghuram and Ben Horowitz say a billion knowledge workers are just one of the next AI demand waves:
"ChatGPT went from a casual app to coding for professionals. Now, using coding, you now built amazing tools for knowledge workers. So that's the next frontier. And now there
Today, a16z is announcing the Machine Age Fund, a new $1.1 billion fund for founders rebuilding what intelligence runs on: chips, memory, networking, systems software, power, and the machines that bring AI into the physical world.
Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, and Raghu Raghuram
Martin Casado, Raghu Raghuram, and Ben Horowitz on what the hyperscalers can see that others can't, and why they're going to spend a trillion dollars on it:
"The demand for AI is basically infinite, and as a result of that, every part of the supply chain is under duress.
Today, a16z is announcing the Machine Age Fund, a new $1.1 billion fund for founders rebuilding what intelligence runs on: chips, memory, networking, systems software, power, and the machines that bring AI into the physical world.
Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, and Raghu Raghuram
Martin Casado on the AI product evolution before Grok Bot really got it right:
"We've, as an industry, gone through multiple realizations for how AI enters our lives. Very early on, you add AI to a product and it's like a search bar. And then you do chat with it, and it chats
Today, a16z is announcing the Machine Age Fund, a new $1.1 billion fund for founders rebuilding what intelligence runs on: chips, memory, networking, systems software, power, and the machines that bring AI into the physical world.
Ben Horowitz, Martin Casado, and Raghu Raghuram