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 developers
Getting into AI as a systems expert
The researcher-to-founder journey
Founding AI companies in specific industries
Early lessons from selling AI agents
And more

Companies include:

Ambience
Anyscale
Black Forest Labs
CommandZero
Databricks
Decagon
Ideogram
Inngest
Replicate
Socket

Check out everything a16z is doing with artificial intelligence here, including articles, projects, and more podcasts.

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