Aug 7, 202624 min
Joel De La Garza is joined by Dylan Ayrey, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Security, and Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, to discuss one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity: AI models are no...
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AI + a16z
Hosted by a16z · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.
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What is AI + a16z about?
Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.
What has AI + a16z covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity | Truffle Security & Socket" (7 August 2026, 24 minutes), "Inside vLLM: The Engine Powering Open-Source AI" (6 August 2026, 47 minutes), and "Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil" (24 June 2026, 41 minutes).
How often does AI + a16z publish?
AI + a16z publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 103 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on AI + a16z?
Booking probability for AI + a16z is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. AI + a16z requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. AI + a16z's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for AI + a16z are IT Services & Software Development. AI + a16z has a technology audience.
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AI + a16z is a technology podcast with 103 episodes published.
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Episode #103
Inside vLLM: The Engine Powering Open-Source AI
Aug 6, 202647 minElena Burger and Matt Bornstein are joined by Simon Mo, co-founder and CEO of Inferact, the open-source inference engine powering many of today's most advanced AI applications. Together, they explore how open-source AI...
Episode #102
Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil
Jun 24, 202641 minMatt Bornstein speaks with Mirendil cofounders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta about their vision for building self-accelerating AI. After leading research efforts at Google and Anthropic, the founders started Mirendil...
Jun 15, 202643 minYoko Li and Justine Moore speak with Ideogram founder and CEO Mohammad Norouzi about image generation models, design workflows, and the evolving relationship between AI and creative work. The conversation covers...
- Jun 4, 202650 min
Sarah Wang speaks with Exa cofounder and CEO Will Bryk about building search infrastructure for the AI era. The conversation covers Exa’s origins, why traditional search engines were not designed for AI agents, and how...
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Episode #99
AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data
Jun 2, 202651 minMartin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The conversation covers Fivetran’s merger with dbt, the changing role of data platforms...
- May 19, 202630 min
Recorded live at the a16z Fintech Connect conference in Deer Valley, Alex Rampell speaks with Ben Horowitz, cofounder and general partner at a16z, about how AI has rewritten the fundamental rules of software...
- May 12, 202639 min
Sophie Buonassisi speaks with Jennifer Li, general partner at a16z, about why infrastructure is becoming one of the most important areas in AI. They discuss how the shift to AI-native systems is reshaping everything...
- May 5, 202646 min
Peter Levine speaks with Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Pinecone, about the launch of Nexus and the shift from vector databases to knowledge engines. As agents become the primary users of software, they discuss why traditional...
Episode #95
Why We Need Continual Learning
Apr 28, 202619 minElena Burger speaks with Malika Aubakirova, partner on the AI infrastructure team at a16z, about why today’s AI systems struggle to learn over time. They discuss the limits of in-context learning, the case for continual...
- Apr 21, 20261 hour
Erik Torenberg, Steve Sinofsky, and Martin Casado speak to Aaron Levie, CEO at Box, about what happens to enterprise software when agents become the primary users. They discuss why coding agents succeed where other...
- Apr 8, 202647 min
Matt Bornstein speaks with Scott Chacon, cofounder of GitHub and CEO of GitButler, about why Git's user interface has barely changed since 2005, how GitButler is rethinking version control for both humans and AI agents...
- Apr 1, 202634 min
Joe Schmidt speaks with Peter Doyle, CEO of Treeline, about why the $100B managed service provider market is a decade behind modern technology and how Treeline is building a new model that combines human technicians...
- Mar 24, 202653 min
Michael Truell, CEO of Cursor, sits down with Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe and an investor in Anysphere, to talk about Collison's history with Smalltalk and Lisp, the MongoDB and Ruby decisions Stripe still lives...
- Mar 19, 202647 min
Yoko Li, Guido Appenzeller, and Joel de la Garza discuss OpenClaw, the open source personal AI assistant that's forcing a rethink of how identity, permissions, and security work on the internet. They cover why setting...
- Mar 17, 202648 min
Vishal Misra returns to explain his latest research on how LLMs actually work under the hood. He walks through experiments showing that transformers update their predictions in a precise, mathematically predictable way...
- Mar 10, 20261h 39m
Jack Neel speaks with Amjad Masad, CEO at Replit, about how AI is making it easier than ever to build and ship software without a technical background. They discuss Replit's rise from a browser-based coding tool to a...
- Mar 3, 202653 min
Jack Altman sits down with Martin Casado, General Partner at a16z, to unpack the shifting dynamics of venture capital and why media matters more than ever. They cover a16z’s evolution from generalists to specialized...
- Feb 24, 202658 min
a16z's Martin Casado and Sarah Wang join Latent Space hosts Alessio Fanelli and Swyx to discuss what makes this AI investment cycle unlike anything in the history of venture capital. They cover why the lines between...
- Feb 19, 20261h 4m
Raghu Raghuram, Managing Partner at a16z, and Sarah Wang, General Partner at a16z, speak with Samar Abbas, CEO of Temporal, about how durable execution became the infrastructure layer behind some of the world’s most...
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