It's always been a challenge to work in with the indeterministic nature of LLMs in an application setting, when services require a more structured input and output to execute. Finally there's a runtime solving for the unreliability and unpredictability. Check out the code and…

This chart showed Fal’s speed is totally in a different league.

the optimal designer/developer relationship

So excited to share our investment in udio led by Matt Bornstein and Rajko Radovanović. If you haven't tried the product, be prepared to get your mind blown. 🤯 The vocals are clear, and the melodies are beat. 🎼 Sign up and sing along!

I have goosebumps listening to this, congrats on the launch udio !! 🎶🎤

This may be true at other venture firms, but it is 100% not true at a16z! One of the main things we want from our younger partners is great investment ideas, leads on killer startups.

martin_casado Ironically all the partners I pitched in our Series B passed, and the associate pushed our deal through 🙃🤷‍♂️. Saved the business.

I think it really was true, a decade or so ago, that an initial non-partner interaction was almost always a negative signal.

Both ways! Not being able to get (or knowing you should get) a warm intro to a partner was regarded as almost disqualifying. And sending an associate to…

No business is built on an island. Ecosystem growth is the new product growth, hear more from Sarah Wang and Bob Moore on how ecosystem data unlocks enterprise opportunities!

Someone told me this before I joined venture as an associate that he never speaks to anyone who's not a partner. He also ended up not raising another round and went for an exit. I wonder if there was correlation there...

Great to see ElevenLabs dbt MotherDuck Metronome Databricks Figma Pinecone Hex Anduril Industries along side their friends powering next gen enterprise stack. 🤝

What do you call the power-up of an already stellar team? 💪 Welcome Erin Price-Wright to the best team to lead forward our American Dynamism thesis! 🇺🇸

Biggest take away from this batch of YC: LLMs have drastically shortened the path to a functional app that delivers real value to end user.

What used to take years, now takes months, if not days.

can’t wait to check out the new look 🤩

I just love this mindset ❤️

Demo day special ✨New Yoko project using vision model + ElevenLabs to add roasting commentary on vintage movies!! 🎬

[NEW LAUNCH] 0/ 🎥 AI Multi-modal Starter Kit✨: Drop a video to Tigris Data and get AI video understanding & narration right away (😄demo narrated by the voice of Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸)

Stack:
- 💻 Video and Image hosting: Tigris Data
- 🦙 Inference: ollama (LLaVA Haotian Liu, BakLLaVA…