Podcast Episodes

Open Models and Maturation: Assessing the Generative AI Market

Episode 9

a16z partners Guido Appenzeller and Matt Bornstein join Derrick Harris to discuss the state of the generative AI market, about 18 months after it really kicked into high gear with the release of Chat…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Security Founders Talk Shop About Generative AI

Episode 8

In this bonus episode, recorded live at our San Francisco office, security-startup founders Dean De Beer (Command Zero), Kevin Tian (Doppel), and Travis McPeak (Resourcely) share their thoughts on ge…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

How to Think About Foundation Models for Cybersecurity

Episode 7

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, a16z General Partner Zane Lackey and a16z Partner Joel de la Garza sit down with Derrick Harris to discuss how generative AI — LLMs, in particular — and foun…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Securing the Software Supply Chain with LLMs

Episode 6

Socket Founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joins a16z's Joel de la Garza and Derrick Harris to discuss the open-source software supply chain. Feross and Joel share their thoughts and insights on topi…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

ARCHIVE: GPT-3 Hype

Episode 5

In this episode, though, we’re traveling back in time to distant — in AI years, at least — past of 2020. Because amid all the news over the past 18 or so months, it’s easy to forget that generative A…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Vector Databases and the Power of RAG

Episode 4

Pinecone Founder and CEO Edo Liberty joins a16z's Satish Talluri and Derrick Harris to discuss the promises, challenges, and opportunities for vector databases and retrieval augmented generation (RAG…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Remaking the UI for AI

Episode 3

a16z General Partner Anjney Midha joins the podcast to discuss what's happening with hardware for artificial intelligence. Nvidia might have cornered the market on training workloads for now, but he …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market

Episode 1

Naveen Rao, vice president of generative AI at Databricks, joins a16z's Matt Bornstein and Derrick Harris to discuss enterprise usage of LLMs and generative AI. Naveen is particularly knowledgeable a…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Making the Most of Open Source in AI

Episode 2

There are few terms in the world of AI — if any — that invoke more of a reaction than a simple four-letter word: Open. Whether it’s industry debates over business models and the actual definition of …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Welcome to the AI + a16z podcast

The AI + a16z podcast captures our thinking on AI across a broad swath of areas, from the infrastructure that powers today’s foundation models to how specific tools, like LLMs, are reshaping the hiri…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago