Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchColumbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science
Episode 945
From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the …
1 year ago
Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?
Episode 944
Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries.
In this episode of Monit…
1 year ago
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Episode 942
Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later.
In thi…
1 year ago
How to Build a Real Estate Marketplace - Kaz Nejatian, Opendoor CEO
Episode 941
Opendoor is trying to make it easier to buy a home. Kaz Nejatian just joined as CEO to help them succeed.
In this episode, a16z General Partners Alex …
1 year ago
Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?
Episode 940
From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still …
1 year ago
Monitoring the Situation #2: Alana Newhouse
Episode 939
Two trends in media have been abundantly clear since 2020: legacy media is dying, and independent media is rising.
a16z General Partners Erik Torenber…
1 year ago
Software is Eating Labor
Episode 938
Software has fundamentally changed the way we record, store, and share information. Its next act is to fundamentally change the nature of our economy…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Ben & Marc Show: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Episode 937
Ben, Marc, and Erik Torenberg are joined by Brian Schimpf, Co-Founder & CEO of Anduril, and Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian. Together, they dig…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cheeky Pint: Marc Andreessen, John Collison & Charlie Songhurst on Tech’s Big Questions
Episode 936
Today we’re sharing a feed drop from Cheeky Pint, where Stripe cofounder and president John Collison chats with legends in technology over a pint of …
1 year, 1 month ago
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
Episode 935
Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics, we’ll need a different approach.
In this episode, a16z General Partner A…
1 year, 1 month ago