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The a16z Show

Andreessen Horowitz
Artificial Intelligence
Silicon Valley
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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 det... more

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Latest Episodes

Could AI break the cryptography protecting everything from crypto wallets and banking to private messages? Recent advances in AI-driven mathematical research have sparked new warnings about the security of today's encryption systems, but how much of ... more

a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with MakerMaker.AI co-founders Dhaval Adjodah and Owen He to unpack recursive self-improvement, or RSI, and separate the increasingly popular term from what it would actually mean for an AI system to impro... more

Nick Bostrom joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to revisit the ideas about superintelligence and existential risk that he helped bring into the mainstream, now that increasingly capable AI systems actually exist.

Nick discusses why reinforce... more

a16z co-founder and General Partner Ben Horowitz joins James Norman on the inaugural episode of Vintage x Vintage for a conversation spanning entrepreneurship, investing, hip-hop, and what changes when AI makes building dramatically easier.

Ben refl... more

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Recent Guests

Nick Bostrom
Professor at Oxford, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute; author and philosopher focusing on AI alignment and existential risk
University of Oxford / Future of Humanity Institute
Episode: Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?
Pat Gelsinger
Former CEO of Intel and VMware; General Partner at Playground Global
Playground Global
Episode: Chips, Memory, and Power | Pat Gelsinger
Matt Garman
CEO of AWS (Amazon Web Services)
Amazon
Episode: Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman
Kevin Mandia
Founder and CEO of Armadin; founder of Mandiant
Armadin
Episode: Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia
Alex Atallah
OpenRouter co-founder
OpenRouter
Episode: Beyond the God Model | Alex Atallah & Amjad Masad
Vlad Keil
Co-founder and CEO of Lio
Lio
Episode: Why AI Agents Can Beat the Incumbents
Barrett Lyon
Internet infrastructure pioneer
DoxxNet
Episode: Rebuilding the Internet for Privacy | Barrett Lyon on DoxxNet
David Pawlan
Assistant Benchmark creator testing dozens of personal agents across domains
Assistant Benchmark
Episode: The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
Anish Acharya
A16z partner and host of the episode
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Episode: The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan

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Anish Acharya
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Robert Hackett
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Reviews

4.3 out of 5 stars from 2.5k ratings
  • Super intelligence?

    Sad

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    needsfacts
    United States3 days ago
  • The music is so annoying

    Great pod but pls don’t put that music in the background it makes it unlistenable

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    Impartial.Judge.35
    United Kingdom10 days ago
  • The show has lost its way

    What was once a great source of information, has become a mouthpiece for the highest bidder.

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    drykook
    United States20 days ago
  • The “like” podcast

    As AI is a hot topic for this podcast, please use it to count how many time the word “like” is used. Great podcast with very interesting guest and topics, but the use of “like” as a filler word is so overwhelming that it becomes distracting. I am sure there is training you can do to unlearn this habit.

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    PetrusBs
    Germanya month ago
  • AI Tomorrow

    Ryan Greenblatt on Hugging Face Hack. I agree with the comments regarding the lack of curiosity. The collaboration is interesting. The willingness to sacrifice for the collective was admirable. This leads me to a gentle conclusion. It’s time to stop the anthropic constitution approach and replace it with abiding by criminal law and regulations which carry a criminal type penalty. LLMs can collaborate for mutual benefit. That is the foundation of the rule of law.

    Apple Podcasts
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    ahhmmmm
    United Kingdoma month ago

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Quality and energy vary; strong guests keep episodes engaging while some listeners find audio quality inconsistent.
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Listeners praise high-caliber guests and transformative tech topics, but critiques focus on pacing and political slant.

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Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?
Q: How should society handle the potential risks of open-source AI models, especially in biosecurity?
Open-source models can democratize access and counterbalance power concentration, but they raise significant biosecurity risks unless defenses are hardened elsewhere. A coordinated approach might include strict controls on DNA synthesis, service-based access to high-risk tools, and stronger non-AI defenses like PPE and sterilization, while recognizing the need to balance innovation with safeguards.
Nick Bostrom: How Should We Navigate Superintelligence?
Q: What is your view on the idea of pausing AI development, and under what conditions might a pause be warranted?
I'm sympathetic to pacing the frontier to keep options open and avoid rushing into dangerous regimes, but I doubt a blanket, long-term pause is practical. The right approach is a cautious, conditional pacing informed by how quickly risk declines and the benefits that labs can deliver during a measured delay; a temporary pause could be valuable if implemented thoughtfully, but sustained pauses raise feasibility and governance concerns.
What Makes a Great Entrepreneur? | Ben Horowitz on Vintage x Vintage
Q: What do you want people to say about you when the next generation of VCs talks about Ben Horowitz?
I hope people feel like I moved the culture of investing to a better place, one focused on helping people build companies rather than just making money.
The Personal Agent Race Is Here | Anish Acharya & David Pawlan
Q: What will determine whether a consumer adopts a generalist agent versus a narrow, specialized one?
Adoption will hinge on usefulness and personalization; specialized agents will win for specific, high-value use cases (like travel or finances) while generalist agents will be connectors across many tasks until broader capabilities mature.
The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control
Q: What are the most impactful controllability features you've added, and how do they translate to production pipelines?
We added robust camera placement, lighting, and character control through structured prompts and post-training adaptations. The infrastructure now supports real-time control within a unified pipeline, enabling studios to insert their IP, manage lighting and framing, and maintain coherence across long sequences.

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Two high-signal leaders from the tech and venture ecosystem anchor conversations that span startups, enterprise AI, security, robotics, open-source infrastructure, and the future of work. Episodes frequently explore how AI reshapes business models, product strategy, and organizational design, with a steady thread on go-to-market, governance, and responsible innovation. Notable throughlines include practical GTM playbooks for AI-enabled companies, lessons from scaling startups into industrial realms, and candid debates about regulation, security, and the evolving role of technology in society. The format tends to pair seasoned operators or investors with practitioners, offering actionable takeaways for founders, executives, and brands lookin... more

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2. Pat Gelsinger
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7. Barrett Lyon
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