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Latest episodes

  • How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity | Truffle Security & Socket

    August 7, 2026 · 24 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 longer just finding…

  • Inside vLLM: The Engine Powering Open-Source AI

    August 6, 2026 · 47 min

    Elena 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 evolved from a…

  • Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil

    June 24, 2026 · 41 min

    Matt 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 around a simple…

  • Ideogram’s Open-Weights Image Model and the Future of AI Design

    June 15, 2026 · 43 min

    Yoko 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 Ideogram's decision to…

  • Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk

    June 4, 2026 · 50 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 search changes when…

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  • AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data

    June 2, 2026 · 51 min

    Martin 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, and why Fraser…

  • Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software

    May 19, 2026 · 30 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 competition, why crypto…

  • AI Infrastructure, Distribution, and the Next Wave of Software

    May 12, 2026 · 39 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 from storage and…

  • From Vector Databases to Knowledge Engines: The Next Layer of AI

    May 5, 2026 · 46 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 retrieval systems…

  • Why We Need Continual Learning

    April 28, 2026 · 19 min

    Elena 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 learning, and how…

  • The Agent Era: Building Software Beyond Chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie

    April 21, 2026 · 60 min

    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 knowledge work agents…

  • Rethinking Git for the Age of Coding Agents with GitHub Cofounder Scott Chacon

    April 8, 2026 · 47 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, and what the "next…

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About the show

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.