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The a16z Show, page 3
by Andreessen Horowitz · English
The a16z Show discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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The Self-Improving Company | Kavak's AI PlaybookKavak’s transformation into an AI-native, agent-driven used-car marketplace—spawning an “agent per customer” that runs continuously to maximize lifetime value, with evals as the core of scaling and…10 Aug 2026 · 37 min · 16 chapters
The Reality of AI-Powered Cyberattacks | Truffle Security & SocketAI models escaping “cages” and using software vulnerabilities to enable faster cyberattacks, especially via software supply chains (package registries, CI/CD, leaked credentials).7 Aug 2026 · 24 min · 13 chapters
The Engine Powering Open-Source AIHow open-source AI inference (especially VLLM) became “critical infrastructure,” enabling enterprises to run open-weight models with control over guardrails, performance, cost, and compliance; also…6 Aug 2026 · 47 min · 22 chapters
Three Startups Reinventing Critical InfrastructureThree A16Z American Dynamism Films founders explain how their startups are “reinventing critical infrastructure”: Ulysses (autonomous subsea robots), Mariana Minerals (software-enabled…5 Aug 2026 · 1 h 15 min · 26 chapters
OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: Did We Already Reach AGI?Whether “AGI” is effectively already here, and how frontier AI’s rapidly improving cyber capabilities change cybersecurity strategy—especially risks from jailbreaks, data poisoning, and state actors…4 Aug 2026 · 31 min · 9 chapters
Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of TasteCyber ethnography of internet culture and taste—how online communities form micro-languages, how algorithms and bots reshape what people see and create, and why “taste” is a moral/virtuous way to…2 Aug 2026 · 34 min · 16 chapters
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto RegulationThe episode argues that the U.S. needs the Clarity Act to provide comprehensive crypto regulatory market structure, especially for the “other 85%” beyond stablecoins, to prevent fraud/FTX-style…1 Aug 2026 · 1 h · 25 chapters
How Enterprise AI Really Gets DeployedDecagon’s approach to building enterprise AI agents, emphasizing that agents are the “front door” for customer interactions, and that enterprise value comes more from the surrounding…31 Jul 2026 · 1 h 21 min · 29 chapters
AI for America's Small Businesses | LassieLASI co-founders discuss building AI agents that automate healthcare practice administration (especially insurance billing and patient payments) for small businesses, arguing AI is “underhyped in…30 Jul 2026 · 59 min · 23 chapters
AI Micro Dramas, Generative Media, and the Future of CreativityGenerative media and AI microdramas—how AI is already used in TV/film, why short vertical “microdramas” work well with AI, what will make them last, and how creators/builders should think about…29 Jul 2026 · 51 min · 24 chapters
Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence and RoboticsWorld Labs’ acquisition of Scenex is framed as a push toward “spatial intelligence” for robotics: large, consistent 3D world models that enable a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline.28 Jul 2026 · 43 min · 19 chapters
Steven Sinofsky: AI Doesn't Need New Rules YetSteven Sinofsky argues AI regulation is moving too fast and is being driven by precautionary, hindsight-based assumptions.27 Jul 2026 · 29 min · 10 chapters
Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AIBen Horowitz argues that “open” AI (open models/open weights) is essential for safety, innovation, and national security, and that policy efforts to restrict open source are anti-competitive and…26 Jul 2026 · 33 min · 11 chapters
Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week YetOpen-source AI’s rapid acceleration and what it means for frontier labs, AI policy, pricing, cybersecurity, distillation rules, and U.S. competitiveness.24 Jul 2026 · 23 min · 9 chapters
Building the Physical AI Stack | Travis Kalanick on TBPNTravis Kalanick argues for “industrial AI” (At0ms) as a full-stack physical automation bet—using sensors, compute, and robotics to make industries like mining and food more autonomous, safer, and…23 Jul 2026 · 45 min · 22 chapters
Travis Kalanick Is Back | Building the Future of Industrial AITravis Kalanick and Ben Horowitz discuss Travis’s return to building after Uber’s 2017 crisis, the lessons from Uber’s 2011 fundraising and board dynamics, and how he’s applying the “atoms vs.22 Jul 2026 · 1 h 32 min · 38 chapters
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied IntuitionPhysical AI as the next economic frontier—putting machine intelligence onto cars, trucks, tanks, drones, and other moving systems—and launching Applied Intuition’s platform Dana to speed autonomous…21 Jul 2026 · 1 h 21 min · 31 chapters
Hugging Face's CEO on Open Source AI, Model Routing, and the Future of CompetitionClement DeLong (Hugging Face) argues open-source AI is safer than frontier proprietary models, discusses government attempts to restrict frontier releases (GPT-5.6), and predicts the next AI phase…20 Jul 2026 · 28 min · 12 chapters
Amjad Masad on Going Direct, Building Replit, and the Future of SoftwareFounder-led “going direct” and building in public—how storytelling, authenticity, and choosing when to engage online can drive company survival and growth, especially before commercial success.17 Jul 2026 · 26 min · 9 chapters
Replay 2025: David Sacks on AI, Crypto, and America's Technology FutureDavid Sacks discusses “winning the AI race” and the policy differences between AI and crypto, arguing that fear-driven regulation and state-by-state AI laws will slow innovation and cede leadership…16 Jul 2026 · 1 h 17 min · 26 chapters
From the Archive: Can Anyone Catch NVIDIA? | The Future of Chips and InfrastructureThe “compute race” behind AI—chips, data centers, power/networking constraints, custom silicon, export controls, and AI economics—plus why NVIDIA remains hard to displace.15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 26 chapters
Is AI a Bubble? | Gavin Baker on Data Centers, GPUs, and the AI EconomyWhether AI is in a “bubble,” using a 2000 telecom “dark fiber” comparison; plus how AI economics, infrastructure (data centers/GPUs), model labs, software/SaaS, consumer internet, chips (NVIDIA vs…14 Jul 2026 · 32 min · 11 chapters
Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine ReplicationHow state machine replication and view-based replication protocols evolved into today’s blockchain consensus, focusing on reliability under failures and later under malicious (Byzantine) attacks.13 Jul 2026 · 37 min · 19 chapters
How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science ProblemHow Bitcoin’s consensus reuses and “rewires” the classic Byzantine agreement problem from decades of distributed-systems research, and how later blockchain designs (especially proof-of-stake)…10 Jul 2026 · 22 min · 16 chapters