Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.
Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutal…
The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Just…
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick’s company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.
OpenAI’s latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.
The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril’s Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation.
A16z VC Jennifer Li, who oversees some of the firm’s fastest growing AI companies, warns founders not to believe every ARR claim made on X.
Investors including a16z are betting that nuclear industry suppliers will be the big winners of the AI demand-driven nuclear renaissance.