AI + a16z
AI's Unsung Hero: Data Labeling and Expert Evals
Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma explores the evolution of data labeling and evaluation in AI — from early supervised learning to today’s sophisticated reinfo...
AI, Data Engineering, and the Modern Data Stack
dbt Labs founder and CEO Tristan Handy sits down with a16z's Jennifer Li and Matt Bornstein to explore the next chapter of data engineering — from the...
Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
Arcjet CEO David Mytton on the increasing complexity of managing who — including bots, crawlers, and AI agents — can access websites, and other web ap...
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
Instabase founder and CEO Anant Bhardwaj discusses the revolutionary impact of LLMs on analyzing unstructured data and documents, and shares his visio...
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
LMArena cofounders Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica sit down with a16z general partner Anjney Midha to talk about the future...
Building AI Systems You Can Trust
Distributional CEO Scott Clark discusses why it's critical to continuously test generative AI systems to ensure expected behavior. In inherently chaot...
Who's Coding Now? AI and the Future of Software Development
a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li explore how generative AI is reshaping software development — from its potential as...
MCP Co-Creator on the Next Wave of LLM Innovation
Anthropic's David Soria Parra — who created MCP (Model Context Protocol) along with Justin Spahr-Summers — sits down with a16z's Yoko Li to discuss th...
What Is an AI Agent?
Partners on the a16z Infra team discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents. Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, ...
Benchmarking AI Agents on Full-Stack Coding
In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Sujay Jayakar, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Convex, to talk about his team’s l...