Today, a16z Crypto is becoming a16z Frontier. Since joining a16z in 2013, @cdixon has focused on technologies that look futuristic well before they reach the mainstream. Those themes led to investments in Oculus, Skydio, Zipline, Coinbase, Solana, and Uniswap. Frontier expands that mandate beyond crypto to back "outer planet" founders who are building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. Chris joins @pmarca, @bhorowitz, and @eriktorenberg to discuss why crypto has become part of the broader tech landscape, why Frontier fills a hole in the firm's architecture, and why they'd rather be too early than too late. They also get into why the gap between AI-native startups and incumbents is the widest Marc has ever seen, how AI could pull forward 20 years of frontier technology, why stablecoins may become the way AI agents pay each other, how AI is breaking the internet's business model, and why today's 18-year-olds are about to become superhumans. 0:50 Introducing a16z Frontier 2:49 Smartphone parts to drones and VR 4:47 Backing the "outer planets" 7:11 Good ideas that look like bad ideas 10:43 The JP Morgan photo in Marc's office 15:13 Good tech ideas eventually work 16:53 AI may pull tech 20 years forward 18:18 The widest AI gap Marc's ever seen 22:06 Workers adopt AI before companies do 26:32 Old use cases vs. AI-native ones 30:08 Beyond "product manager brain" 34:45 AI can reverse engineer any hardware 38:23 The case for open source AI 46:36 How AI breaks the internet's model 49:11 VR, homebrew hacking, multiplayer AI 54:00 If you're 18, study "modern alchemy" YouTube: youtu.be/-9XQMHhpypc Not an offer or solicitation. None of the information herein should be taken as investment advice; Some of the companies mentioned are portfolio companies of a16z. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more information. A list of investments made by a16z is available at a16z.com/portfolio.

When we started @SereactAI , people told us returns were impossible to automate. This is Cortex handling @Zalando returns at a @cevalogistics fulfillment center. It’s live and in production, every shift. Proud of the team that made this real.

Very proud to say @attio is in the top 25 fastest-growing software companies in the world (and the No. 1 fastest growing CRM!). Truly surreal. What a journey! brex.com/journal/brex-benchm…

Robots that learn by copying people hit a ceiling. Cortex 2.6 now learns from practice: after 50 attempts per task, its success on three returns-handling tasks rose from 60–70% to 85–100%.

In the age of agents, systems of record have never mattered more. They’ve also never been less prepared for what’s coming. Today, we’re announcing @attio's hybrid architecture, with the controls of application software at the scale of infrastructure. To agents, Attio looks like a database, queryable in SQL - a language they're RL’d on. Unlike a database, the business logic, policies, and compliance sit behind the query. This makes all of Attio’s data accessible by agents in the most powerful and flexible syntax. It gives GTM teams an order of magnitude more value from their time, with the full power of agents working across the entire customer lifecycle. A new shape of software is here. attio.ai/architecture

Introducing Anatomy Describe a machine in one line. Claude brings it to life. - Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore - WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more - Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate and move Install it as an agent skill. Fully open source.

Today we're launching Odyssey-3, the most powerful foundation world model yet. It sets a new state of the art on Physics-IQ, and powers robots, trains AIs, and generates interactive experiences. It's really cool. Experience the model today, all for free!

I think a lot of western companies are missing the mark on humanoids because they're still focused on the idea that its an engineering marvel / ultra premium product. nah, bruh, it's a race to the bottom. Scale is your only friend, cheapest funcitonal robot is going to dominate

After 2+ years in the robotics data space, we are shutting @Eidon_AI down. The thesis was right. But the business is brutally hard. We close this chapter by open-sourcing everything we built and sharing lessons for anyone venturing into the space.