Recently, a16z and the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research hosted the NFT Virtual Summit, which brought together leading thinkers and builders on the topic of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens — these tokens are enabling new creator and ownership economies to emerge. We’ve covered NFTs in other podcasts and articles, including a curated list of reading resour ... Show More
Jan 22
Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI
Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference layer that makes large AI models faster, cheaper, and more reliable to run across any hardware, model architecture, or depl ... Show More
43m 37s
Jan 21
Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI
In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing. He explains why current constraints are driven less by technical limits and more by regulation, particularly around power, ... Show More
27m 59s
Sep 2019
Apple Camera, Services; Wearables - Where are We (#8)
This is episode #8 of our news show, 16 Minutes, where we quickly cover recent headlines of the week, the a16z way -- why they're in the news; why they matter from our vantage point in tech -- and share our experts' views on these trends.This week we cover, with the following a16 ... Show More
20 m
Sep 2020
Apple and the 'Doctor’s Office on a Wrist'
We cover the latest coming out of Apple's event yesterday, focusing on their new watches (including a lower price model); new sensors (including blood oxygen); and services for healthcare. Is always-on, (relatively) low-cost, passive monitoring for fitness and mainstream consumer ... Show More
19m 6s
Sep 2020
Tiktok and 'Seeing Like an Algorithm'
In one of our special "2x" episodes of 16 Minutes (32ish minutes;) -- our show where we quickly cover the headlines and tech trends, offering analysis, frameworks, explainers, and more -- we cover the algorithm that powers TikTok, the short video-sharing platform that grabbed mas ... Show More
37m 30s
May 2024
DV111 - Supports from cooler sentiment & A different meme stock rally - Daily financial outlook - May 14th
US stocks are nearing all-time-high again, but now with lower and contrarian more supportive levels of investor sentiment. Whilst the latest meme stock rally, from AMC to GME, should be treated cautiously.
4m 32s
May 2024
DV108 - The summer of sports catalyst & Drivers of the UK stealth stocks rally - Daily financial outlook - May 9th
The big summer of sports, from the Olympics to Euro 2024 football, is a potential catalyst to end the post-pandemic performance hangover for our basket of the world’s largest sports stocks. Whilst UK interest rate cut expectations have been driving a long-awaited FTSE 100 catch u ... Show More
4m 39s