This is the part of the new job at @a16z that I’m most excited about: Building an incredible team. I’ve been deeply impressed by the level of talent and ambition here and I’m pumped to build off it. We’re hiring for the following roles first at the intersection of media,

Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question Don’t mistake smoother launches for slower progress. Nathan Labenz: “GPT-4 couldn’t push the frontier of human knowledge. GPT-5 sometimes can. That alone is a huge deal.” 00:00 Intro 01:14 Cal Newport’s

Classic Hitler move, getting Jewish hostages released and achieving peace.

The great @pmarca will join us on Monitoring the Situation this week. What situations should we discuss?

Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Can’t Discover New Science From GPT-1 to GPT-5, LLMs have made tremendous progress in modeling human language. But can they go beyond that to make new discoveries and move the needle on scientific progress? Distinguished Columbia computer science

Who is Nick Land?

Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land & the State of Energy Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg,

Today we are announcing that a16z is co-leading the Series D in @Kalshi, a regulated exchange for trading on prediction markets. Prediction markets are a modern implementation of a classic economic idea, one most clearly articulated by Friedrich Hayek. Hayek and the knowledge

1/ PREDICTION PATH SCREENSHOTS: A NEW KIND OF MEME By @Alex_Danco In the mid-2010s, a new visual content format started popping up around elections, sports games and playoff races: the “probabilities changing over time” graph. These graphs were a compelling content format

in case you're wondering how @pmarca feels about @Kalshi

Prediction: the meta-theme of the 21st century. By @Alex_Danco

Kalshi recently raised $300M+ at $5B from Sequoia, a16z, Paradigm and others. Since then, we've grown over 3x, hit $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And today…Kalshi goes global. 140+ countries. 1 liquidity pool.

When I met @mansourtarek_ @luanalopeslara, prediction markets would've leaned "no" on almost everything they've accomplished, from regulatory to liquidity to market leadership But these two don't take no @Kalshi has gone mainstream & @a16z is thrilled to co-lead their Series D

Personal Update: Excited to join a16z. I will be working with the infrastructure investing team and growth investing team to help amazing founders build the next generation of great companies.

I’m hiring someone to convene quality conversations with experts across sectors in group chats & IRL. They need to be online enough to know the memes/discourse but also functional enough to operate professionally at a high level. It’s surprisingly hard to find someone who is both

Me after I ask the gym employee to turn the music down and she actually does it

Anyone too difficult to be an employee is also likely too difficult to be a CEO. Anyone who can't serve, can't lead.

from london working on our first @a16z original, coming later this year @bnslevin

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire From GPT-5 to Sora, OpenAI has been making a dizzying amount of bets recently. It now acts as a frontier AGI research lab, a big tech product company with nearly a billion users, and a driver of the largest infrastructure

AGI has been achieved internally. Episode dropping tomorrow.