Updates on A16z

Every AI story we track on A16z: 15 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Robotics7 min read

Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Covered by 2 sources

Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team

Covered by 3 sources

This month

Society & Culture39 min read

The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started

Don't Worry About the Vase
Agents4 min read

OpenAI president: “The computer should be there to empower you.” So stop retooling software for AI agents

The New Stack (AI)

The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

Latent.Space
Healthcare10 min read

‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

TechCrunch
Dev4 min read

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

The Next Web

The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

The Next Web
Dev2 min read

a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

The Next Web

Don’t Be Afraid of Self-Improving AI, Says a16z-Backed Startup Mirendil

Gizmodo

a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent

The Next Web

This a16z-backed startup says the fix for AI errors is a weaker model, not a smarter one

The Next Web

SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table

The Next Web

Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding

TechCrunch
That's everything we have on A16z right now