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 wit...
In this episode of AI + a16z, Aatish Nayak, head of product at Harvey, sits down with a16z partner Kimberly Tan to share his experience building AI products for enterprises — including the legal profession — and how to address areas like UX, trust, and customer engagement. Importantly, Aatish explains, industries like law don't need AGI or even the latest and greatest models; they need products that augment their existing workflows so they can better serve clients and still make it home for dinner.Learn more:BigLaw BenchFollow everyone on X:Aatish NayakKimberly Tan
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Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services
In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z partner Alex Immerman sits down with Hebbia founder and CEO George Sivulka to discuss the potential for reasoning models and AI agents to supercharge knowledge-worker productivity — and the global economy along with it. As George explains, his customers are already saving significant time and and effort on important, but monotonous, tasks, and improved models paired with savvy users will continue to reshape how industries including finance, law, and other professional services operate.Follow everyone on X:George SivulkaAlex Immerman
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Data Management for Enterprise LLMs
In this episode of AI + a16z, Fivetran cofounder and CEO George Fraser and a16z partner Guido Appenzeller discuss how LLMs fit into the data management picture within large enterprises. In order to take advantage of a potentially revolutionary technology, organizations don't need to rip out their existing infrastructure, but they do need to rethink their data hygiene so language models can understand it.Follow everyone on X:George FraserGuido AppenzellerDerrick Harris
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From NLP to LLMs: The Quest for a Reliable Chatbot
In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z General Partner Martin Casado and Rasa cofounder and CEO Alan Nichol discuss the past, present, and future of AI agents and chatbots. Alan shares his history working to solve this problem with traditional natural language processing (NLP), expounds on how large language models (LLMs) are helping to dull the many sharp corners of natural-language interactions, and explains how pairing them with inflexible business logic is a great combination.Learn more:Task-Oriented Dialogue with In-Context LearningGoEX: Perspectives and Designs Towards a Runtime for Autonomous LLM ApplicationCALM SummitFollow everyone on X:Alan NicholMartin Casado
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Best of the Year: Building AI Companies
A 2024 highlight reel, featuring founders sharing their insights, advice, and experiences building AI companies — from foundation-model labs to vertical applications. Topics include:Building AI tools for developersGetting into AI as a systems expertThe researcher-to-founder journeyFounding AI companies in specific industriesEarly lessons from selling AI agentsAnd moreCompanies include:AmbienceAnyscaleBlack Forest LabsCommandZeroDatabricksDecagonIdeogramInngestReplicateSocket
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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.
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