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# ![@a16z Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::64844802.png) @a16z a16z

a16z has been making significant investments and announcements in the AI and technology spaces. The firm has invested in companies like Hedra Labs, which is working on AI character animation for video. a16z has also been highlighting the importance of trust and reliability in AI systems, as well as the rise of "Generative Engine Optimization" (GEO) as a new playbook for brand visibility.

### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/interactions)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[vc firms](/list/vc-firms)  #4 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[open ai](/topic/open-ai) #812, [marc](/topic/marc) #193, [has been](/topic/has-been) #3810, [china](/topic/china) 3.96%, [$300m](/topic/$300m) #25, [andreessen horowitz](/topic/andreessen-horowitz) #3, [databricks](/topic/databricks) #8, [$5b](/topic/$5b) #16, [$50b](/topic/$50b) #12, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) #443

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@eriktorenberg](/creator/undefined) [@cryptoimsny2](/creator/undefined) [@pmarca](/creator/undefined) [@ruslanjabari](/creator/undefined) [@nugget_trades](/creator/undefined) [@rhody_special](/creator/undefined) [@bhorowitz](/creator/undefined) [@aad_llc](/creator/undefined) [@nurmahendr94](/creator/undefined) [@sama](/creator/undefined) [@venturetwins](/creator/undefined) [@ktmboyle](/creator/undefined) [@neerajt4](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@arampell](/creator/undefined) [@martincasado](/creator/undefined) [@degeneaza](/creator/undefined) [@0xbasens](/creator/undefined) [@rabois](/creator/undefined) [@omooretweets](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Movement (MOVE)](/topic/move-movement) [Open Custody Protocol (OPEN)](/topic/$open) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::64844802/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Partnerships work when both sides win. Ali Ghodsi says Databricks and Microsoft each had something the other needed and the deal still fell apart ten times before launch. If you dont have grit those deals will die. @alighodsi @bhorowitz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978502716445098417) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-15T16:46Z 891.2K followers, 25.3K engagements


"SEO is slowly losing its dominance. Welcome to GEO. In the age of ChatGPT Perplexity and Claude Generative Engine Optimization is positioned to become the new playbook for brand visibility. It's not about gaming the algorithm it's about being cited by it. The brands that win in GEO won't just appear in AI responses. They'll shape them. Must-read from @zachcohen25 and @seema_amble on the future of search marketing and performance in the LLM era"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1927766844062011834) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-05-28T16:40Z 891.1K followers, 642.3K engagements


"We are excited to be leading @reductoais $75M Series B. Despite the remarkable progress weve seen in AI over the last few years document processing remains a critical bottleneck. Reducto exists to fix this. Unlike traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods which are slow and error-prone Reducto interprets documents highly accurately reading layout format and structure as cues to meaning. Reducto provides granular control: it can extract only handwritten portions summarize specific tables or parse complex multilingual technical documents. Reducto handles it all. Reducto has"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978130150362320952) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-14T16:05Z 891.2K followers, 138.3K engagements


"@aditabrm @reductoai 🔥"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978131304316022961) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-14T16:10Z 891.2K followers, 2306 engagements


".@pmarca's review of Eddington: Hollywood has largely pretended that every insane nationwide phenomenon of the past decade did not happen (Trump COVID social media wokeness). Eddington is the first movie to acknowledge them. "Me and the other four people in the theater who were watching it were just like 'Wow. It's amazing. It's finally happening.'""  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1979278259255939521) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-17T20:08Z 891.2K followers, 63.3K engagements


"In recent weeks weve already seen AI agents go rogue or leak sensitive data due to weak identity infrastructure a preview of what happens when autonomy outpaces trust. Theres a structural mismatch between how our systems authenticate and how agents actually behave. @KeycardLabs is building the missing trust fabric for this new world. Keycard issues dynamic identity-bound task-scoped tokens: cryptographic keycards that carry verifiable proof of who the agent is what it is allowed to do and for whom. Were investing in Keycard to build the identity layer for the agent economy. Founders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980651060969558453) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-21T15:03Z 891.2K followers, 27.9K engagements


".@pmarca's recipe for a great founder: two traits and one choice. The traits: intellect and energy. The choice: courage. Courage is pain tolerance. A huge amount of what people have to do is just get used to getting punched. And the reason people don't understand this is because when you're a founder you cannot let on that this is happening because it will cause people to think that you're weak and they'll lose faith in you. So you have to pretend that you're having a great time when you're dying inside"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1967716990170382491) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-15T22:27Z 891.2K followers, 275.7K engagements


"In 2023 China installed 276000 robots. America installed 38000. We can't let China win the robotics race"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1973519650551156886) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-01T22:45Z 891.2K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Buying A Home Should Be Easy Opendoor is trying to make it easier to buy a home. Kaz Nejatian just joined as CEO to help them succeed. We sat down with Kaz to talk about his vision for Opendoor the problem with copying the hedge fund model how to build through economic downturns and the importance of ambition and long-term thinking. 00:00 Becoming Opendoor CEO 09:15 Real estate industry misalignments 16:49 The home-buying chain 33:02 Opendoors business model evolution 40:28 Learning from mistakes 49:01 Community intuition and mission @arampell @eriktorenberg @CanadaKaz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975604966363701598) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-07T16:51Z 891.2K followers, 157.8K engagements


"Read the full piece in the a16z newsletter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976680152684978649) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-10T16:04Z 891.2K followers, 101.1K engagements


".@sama says AGI wont feel like a singularity. Itll arrive quietly be absorbed fast and life will keep moving showing how quickly society adapts. It turns out it will be more continuous than we thought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977101879915266557) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-11T19:59Z 891.2K followers, 121.1K engagements


"A startup is either gaining momentum or standing still. Marc Andreessen says the best founders pick up power early by compounding credibility into resources and resources into results. A top tier VC is a bridge loan of credibility at a point in time when the startup maybe deserves it but just doesnt have it yet. Source: @pmarca on Cheeky Pint with @collision and Charlie Songhurst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977827512987357617) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-13T20:03Z 891.2K followers, 157.3K engagements


"Were doubling down on @deel and co-leading their Series E at a $17.3B valuation. Deel is powering global work. International since day one they own 250+ legal entities 55+ native payroll engines and financial licenses around the world. They have legal HR and compliance personnel on the ground in every country where they operate. Deels platform is outpacing legacy systems: They have a diverse product suite that is unbundled by default and own their own payroll and banking infrastructure. Deel has demonstrated exceptional growth and were excited for continued partnership with @Bouazizalex"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978824294000931210) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-16T14:04Z 891.2K followers, 125.4K engagements


"You can just read XX books. Keith Rabois on how to beat the experts as a contrarian outsider: "I think if you're going to reinvent an industry you don't want experts." "People are like 'Where do you get your contrarian ideas'" "I read books." @rabois"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978891379632935075) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-16T18:30Z 891.2K followers, 304.4K engagements


".@pmarca on an Atlas Shrugged movie in 2025: " It would be the Silicon Valley version of the Minecraft movie. It would just be like 'Yep we're all going.'" "Every time I've ever talked to anybody who's read Atlas Shrugged in the last five years they're like 'Wow. It's the novel about the world we live in.' It's like 'Oh I know that guy and I know that guy and I know that guy.'""  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1979320942745784688) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-17T22:57Z 891.2K followers, 561K engagements


"Augusto Aghi Marietti Cofounder and CEO of @Kong has one of the most remarkable founder stories in Silicon Valley from starting out of a garage in Milan to sleeping on Travis Kalanicks couch to building an AI unicorn. We sat down with Aghi to discuss the near-death moments that defined Kongs journey the seven-year grind before breakout success and how APIs became the assembly line of software. Aghi also explains how Kong evolved into the backbone of modern API and AI connectivity and why the coming wave of AI agents will make APIs more essential than ever. 00:00 Introduction 02:57 Cold"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980673025742876732) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-21T16:30Z 891.2K followers, 48.6K engagements


"What big ideas will define 2025 and beyond Here are highlights of some of our big ideas for the year ahead. 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1864773011725079006) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2024-12-05T20:45Z 890.6K followers, 377K engagements


"Why dont trees have eyes Because they dont move. Movement creates the need for perception. That idea is at the heart of why AI needs spatial intelligence and its central to how @drfeifei and @theworldlabs are thinking about the future of AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1930292331598496178) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-06-04T15:55Z 890.8K followers, 7640 engagements


"Why dont trees have eyes Because they dont move. Movement creates the need for perception. That idea is at the heart of why AI needs spatial intelligence and its central to how @drfeifei and @theworldlabs are thinking about the future of AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1968346902690517418) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-17T16:10Z 890.9K followers, 29.2K engagements


"Grace Hopper imagined programming in English more than XX years ago. Andrej Karpathy calls English the hot new programming language. Replit CEO Amjad Masad (@amasad) says AI fulfills that vision: we can talk ideas into creation. Clarity of thought is no longer abstract. It compiles. Source: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1971697136678080890) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-26T22:03Z 890.7K followers, 67.8K engagements


"In most asset classes the top investors fade by the next decade. In venture capital firms have enduring success because the best entrepreneurs only want to work with the best firms. If this was the NFL draft we'd have the number one draft pick every single year. - @bhorowitz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1973871185873297426) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-02T22:02Z 890.8K followers, 56.5K engagements


"Sam Altman says there are layers of AI awareness. The public sees ChatGPT. The power users say wow those people have no idea. The scientists say the same about them. Thats what he means by the capability overhang. @sama"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976331393975320867) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-09T16:58Z 890.8K followers, 64.5K engagements


"Were thrilled to be co-leading @Kalshi's Series D. Prediction markets have established themselves not only as a new asset class but as an extremely useful tool for predicting the future. And Kalshi is the leading company in the space. Not only does it have more volume than every other prediction market combined but its the fastest growing tech company in the world outside AI. Kalshi also announced today that they've expanded globally to XXX countries making them the world's only unified global prediction market. Were excited to partner with @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara as they scale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976644611981656181) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-10T13:42Z 890.8K followers, 129.2K engagements


"AI agents are learning to work autonomously for longer. According to @METR_Evals task length doubles every few months: X hours now and potentially X days next year and X weeks in X years. Nathan Labenz thinks this a big deal. Once agents can handle weeks of work automation spreads from software into every corner of the economy. @labenz @eriktorenberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978159979048923584) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-14T18:04Z 890.8K followers, 56.1K engagements


"AI time horizons are increasing in many domains. h/t @METR_Evals (July 2025)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978219900595495066) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-14T22:02Z 890.8K followers, 31.9K engagements


"Palmer Luckey: Im a fan of killer robots. His argument: if war is inevitable the ethical choice is to apply the best technology. AI weapons mean higher precision fewer mistakes less collateral damage. Saving innocent lives means discriminating between a tank and a school bus. Source: @PalmerLuckey on Memos to the President"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1973443237248639170) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-01T17:41Z 891.1K followers, 258.2K engagements


"How does Vishal Misra define AGI He says todays LLMs move within the known manifold of human knowledge. True AGI will chart new ones of its own. AGI begins when a machine can generate new science new math new paradigms when it invents something like the theory of relativity. @vishalmisra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977775223656284258) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-13T16:35Z 891.1K followers, 26.4K engagements


"The moment is right to push forward into a new frontier for AI one that is as fundamental as language says @drfeifei. That frontier is visual spatial intelligence. With Justin Johnson (@jcjohnss) her cofounder at @theworldlabs and a16z's @martin_casado Fei-Fei explains what unlocking this technology could mean and why were in the midst of a Cambrian explosion:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1837234492630569198) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2024-09-20T20:56Z 891.1K followers, 472.1K engagements


".@balajis says AI is widening the verification gap. A massive number of jobs will be needed to close it. Prompting floods the world with fakes. Crypto brings back proof. You're gonna need cryptographically hashed posts and crypto IDs . to know the data wasn't tampered with. In the AI era trust has to be engineered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1949914339671945540) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-07-28T19:26Z 891.1K followers, 544.2K engagements


""This is our wakeup call. The leadership of the United States has been bold in defining and defending the AI software stack; now in concert with its most relevant allies it must lay the groundwork for a defensible AI robotics stack. There is time but not much. The most crucial challenge of the AI race is coming into view. We need to get in the running." @martin_casado @AnneNeuberger"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1971629850890064380) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-26T17:36Z 891.1K followers, 395.3K engagements


"Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian on $OPEN and why he listens to retail investors: @CanadaKaz @Opendoor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975705336087781619) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-07T23:30Z 891.1K followers, 127.6K engagements


"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 buildout in history all in one - plus its made partnerships with Microsoft Nvidia Oracle AMD SoftBank Oracle and even the US government. We talked to Sam Altman about the core thesis bringing OpenAIs bets together why they released Sora how they use models internally the most informative evals for assessing AI progress and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975936843909828914) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-08T14:50Z 891.2K followers, 1.3M engagements


"When Ben Horowitz talked Ali Ghodsi out of selling the company with a pep talk only Ben could deliver: Do you want to live with that or do you want to just have the money I'll support whatever you want to do. I really couldn't care less. @alighodsi @bhorowitz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978527946882351195) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-15T18:26Z 891.2K followers, 74.8K engagements


"As AI and entertainment collide there are huge opportunities particularly for creators who are becoming fluent in AI tools and for those who can distinguish themselves by having a high bar for taste. That was one of the key takeaways from @andrewchen's conversation with @scottbelsky (partner at @A24) at #NYTechWeek presented by @speedrun and @Adobe Ventures. Scott called this concept knowledge arbitrage. Just as those who became fluent in social media had an early advantage in online content creators who are using ChatGPT and other AI tools in their daily lives for job interview prep issues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1931016759219282235) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-06-06T15:54Z 891.2K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Ben Horowitz: Computing has always needed two pillars machines and networks. AI has the machines but not the network. Crypto is the missing layer giving AI money identity provenance against deepfakes and a decentralized registry of truth. Source: @bhorowitz at Columbia Business School (@Columbia_Biz)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1970562720128024863) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-23T18:55Z 891.2K followers, 483.1K engagements


"Why are hyperlinks blue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1972027557685141716) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-27T19:56Z 891.2K followers, 7.6M engagements


"China Has Mass. Can America Catch Up If a Taiwan war were to break out the US would run out of high-end munitions in about X days. Currently China is far outpacing us on raw scale. They have more personnel more missiles and more than XXX times the shipbuilding capacity. We sat down with @AndurilTech CEO Brian Schimpf and @HadrianInc CEO Chris Power to talk about what its going to take to make the American defense base the best in the world once again. 00:00 The myth of technical superiority 03:31 The erosion of US manufacturing 08:31 The skilled labor crisis 17:57 Supply chain vulnerabilities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1972735792465510578) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-29T18:50Z 891.2K followers, 488.4K engagements


"Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creators Next Venture Scaling laws took us from GPT-1 to GPT-5 Pro. But in order to crack physics we need a new approach. We sat down with Liam Fedus (co-creator of ChatGPT) and Ekin Dogus Cubuk (ex-materials science and chemistry lead at Google DeepMind) to talk about their new startup @PeriodicLabs and their plan to automate discovery in the hard sciences. 00:00 LLMs in physics and chem research 03:53 What is Periodic Labs 14:45 Building the team 17:29 Superconductivity 27:39 Periodic's mission and applications 35:38 Mid-training and model performance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1973070855275159837) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-09-30T17:02Z 891.1K followers, 214.2K engagements


"Software is Eating Labor At $XXX billion in annual revenue the global software market is huge. But it pales in comparison to the labor market which weighs in at $XX trillion a year in just the US. The wages of nurses alone are more than twice the revenue of every SaaS company combined. Over the last XX years software fundamentally changed the way we record store and share information. Its next act is to perform the work itself and charge on outcomes capturing trillions of dollars of value in the process. @arampell explains in this talk from the 2025 a16z LP Summit. 00:00 The history of labor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1974150330532389129) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-03T16:31Z 891.2K followers, 209.4K engagements


"Marc Andreessen says Boston and Silicon Valley were neck and neck as tech hubs in the 90s. The final break came when Mark Zuckerberg couldnt raise for Facebook in Boston and had to move west. If hed stayed Boston might have had its own ecosystem. Instead the frontier spirit won. Source: @pmarca on Cheeky Pint with @collision and Charlie Songhurst"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1974173424466735111) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-03T18:03Z 891.2K followers, 353.4K engagements


"Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf: The US capital market structure isnt XX% better than anyone else. Its several thousand times better. Where else could you finance $200B of data centers with no revenue If we can aim that financial engine at manufacturing and defense America wins the century. @SchimpfBrian @eriktorenberg @pmarca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1974256480930210059) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-03T23:33Z 891.2K followers, 380.3K engagements


"Sam Altman says OpenAI is exploring new monetization models. Sora videos are expensive to make and for people creating hundreds a day the current setup wont work. It may need a new model maybe even charging per generation. Ads arent off the table but he draws the line: if ChatGPT ever broke user trust for profit that trust would vanish. @sama @OpenAI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975946891419611452) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-08T15:30Z 891.2K followers, 718.7K engagements


"OpenAI has seen whats coming and its big enough to rebuild the worlds infrastructure around it. Sam Altman says the company is making a very aggressive infrastructure bet with new partnerships coming across energy chips and distribution. If were right about where model capability is going the economic value can go very very far. @sama @OpenAI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1975976064464892120) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-08T17:26Z 891.2K followers, 176.3K engagements


"We are excited to welcome @RaghuRaghuram as a16z's newest General Partner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976286647861014852) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-09T14:00Z 891.2K followers, 438.2K engagements


"There's also now the clip"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976429479234052268) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-09T23:28Z 891.2K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Prediction: the meta-theme of the 21st century. By @Alex_Danco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976680135853281389) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-10T16:04Z 891.1K followers, 296.9K engagements


"Hayek & the power of markets: @ATabarrok @smc90 @a16zcrypto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1976741378534347200) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-10T20:07Z 891.2K followers, 60.7K engagements


"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 Katherine Boyle and Erin Price-Wright sit down with Zach to discuss the current state of home power generation whats misunderstood about the data center buildout and how to fix the US electricity grid. Plus Erik and Katherine talk with a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin about Silicon Valleys favorite Dark Enlightenment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977491972970651810) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-12T21:50Z 891.2K followers, 152.5K engagements


"Columbia CS Professor: Why LLMs Cant 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 professor Vishal Misra argues against. LLMs compress the extremely complex world into Bayesian manifolds and while confidence is high on the manifold LLMs hallucinate when reasoning outside of their training data. A true AGI wouldnt just be able to reason across larger and larger manifolds but create new ones entirely."  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977736371101200599) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-13T14:01Z 891.2K followers, 112K engagements


"Storage moves energy through time and the grid moves energy through space. Base Power co-founder Justin Lopas says when home batteries connect across the grid they stop acting as backup and start functioning as an intelligent system turning infrastructure into a network that balances itself. @JLopas @basepowerco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1977798789131104455) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-13T18:09Z 891.2K followers, 71.8K engagements


"Is AI Slowing Down Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question Dont mistake smoother launches for slower progress. Nathan Labenz: GPT-4 couldnt push the frontier of human knowledge. GPT-5 sometimes can. That alone is a huge deal. 00:00 Intro 01:14 Cal Newports AI slowdown argument 03:08 Are students getting lazy 04:55 Nathan's 2x2 matrix of AI impact 07:00 Scaling laws GPT-4.5 GPT-5 11:05 Longer context windows better reasoning 17:05 AI as scientist and real discoveries 19:17 Why launch perception matters 26:10 The misunderstood METR study 36:20 Agents recursive self-improvement 51:15"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978145111767973952) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-14T17:05Z 891.2K followers, 41.2K engagements


"Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business Ben Horowitz founded Loudcloud in the middle of the dot-com bust and sold it for $XXX billion then led Andreessen Horowitz from its founding to $XX billion in committed capital. Ali Ghodsi co-founded @Databricks stepped in as CEO during a crisis and led it to a valuation of over $XXX billion. In this episode of Boss Talk Ben and Ali join a16z General Partners Sarah Wang and Erik Torenberg to share founder war stories how to hire and make deals how to keep culture intense without burning employees out and why founders should"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978481304506397057) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-15T15:21Z 891.2K followers, 213.9K engagements


"Ben Horowitz once told Martin Casado that pricing is the most important decision in the history of a company. Pricing determines both growth and margins the two forces that drive valuation. Martin says the same lesson still applies today as software moves from recurring licenses to usage-based models. Source: @martin_casado with @mariogabriele on The Generalist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978559610920595843) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-15T20:32Z 891.2K followers, 44.7K engagements


"Were excited to be doubling down and co-leading @CounselHealth's Series A after leading their Seed round last year. Everyone should have their own doctor for life. But todays healthcare system is defined by scarce clinical capacity. Over XXX million people in the U.S. dont have a dedicated doctor and even those who do often wait weeks to see them. Counsel sees a better way: theyre building an always available extremely knowledgeable completely personalized medical AI closely paired with expert human physicians that can join any conversation within minutes Led by @malagappan previously a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978809641136968139) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-16T13:05Z 891.2K followers, 42.2K engagements


"Keith Rabois: Israel OpenAI Opendoor and DOGE The US government is over $XX trillion in debt. But what if there were a way out Legendary investor and @khoslaventures Managing Director Keith Rabois thinks that AI will turbocharge GDP growth to 4-6% a year allowing us to grow our way out of the debt crisis. We sat down with Keith to discuss why he believes the US is entering a new economic expansion whether sovereign AI projects are inevitable the future of Google and Microsoft why OpenAI is so dominant and the prospects for peace in the Middle East. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Iran neutralized & rise of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1978868499499094301) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-16T16:59Z 891.2K followers, 440.3K engagements


"Hollywood is going through a major cultural and creative reset and Marc Andreessen thinks its long overdue. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation Marc joins Erik Torenberg and Katherine Boyle to dissect the past decade of filmmaking from the rise of the message in every movie to the return of genuine comedy and art. They cover the post-woke shift in Hollywood the financial collapse of the streaming era and why AI could spark a renaissance for a new generation of independent filmmakers. 00:00 Movies as modern myths 03:53 Why movies still matter 07:03 Taylor Swift Scorsese & cultural"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1979221135012303000) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-17T16:21Z 891.2K followers, 713.4K engagements


"Marc Andreessen says that AI will enable creative geniuses to make incredible movies without studio budgets. " I think we're going to get completely new kinds of film and entertainment from people who otherwise never would have been able to access the medium." @pmarca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1979257675042164927) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-17T18:46Z 891.2K followers, 285K engagements


"We sat down with Reid Hoffman to talk about the future trajectory of copilots and agents whether true AGI requires consciousness and what friendship and purpose will ultimately mean in a world where machines can do everything. 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Investing in AI & Silicon Valley blind spots 05:45 Will AI replace doctors 09:40 Limits of LLMs and reasoning 15:00 Bits vs atoms: the robotics challenge 18:00 AI savants & context awareness 20:10 Software eating labor & the lazy and rich heuristic 24:25 Scaling laws and the future of AI 31:15 Consciousness and agency in AI 35:45 Philosophy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980308459578077648) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-20T16:21Z 891.2K followers, 72.8K engagements


"How technology acquires legitimacy. A conversation with @stevesi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980329432490602565) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-20T17:45Z 891.2K followers, 15.1K engagements


"Read the full piece in the a16z newsletter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980329448353460247) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-20T17:45Z 891.2K followers, 9065 engagements


"Great founders are almost always too early. @pmarca"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980352182529716522) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-20T19:15Z 891.2K followers, 80.1K engagements


"Katherine Boyle on technology and strength: @KTmBoyle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/a16z/status/1980688056564039917) [@a16z](/creator/x/a16z) 2025-10-21T17:30Z 891.2K followers, 16.5K engagements