a16z launches Frontier fund: Andreessen, Horowitz and Dixon on betting on AI's edges
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-10-23
a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate backing founders at the edges. Chris Dixon joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to argue founders should ask not "is this too ambitious?" but "is this ambitious enough?" — and how AI could pull decades of progress forward across hardware, robotics, entertainment and science. They also cover the coming internet of AI agents, why open source matters as AI grows more powerful, and why the next decade's biggest companies may combine previously separate technologies and business models.
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