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What a16z is actually funding (and what it’s ignoring) when it comes to AI infra

Summary

Andreessen Horowitz has raised a new $15 billion fund, with $1.7 billion dedicated to its infrastructure team that has invested in several prominent AI companies. The article analyzes where a16z is focusing its AI infrastructure investments and what areas it may be overlooking.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments, including Black Forest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal, and dozens of others.   a16z general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs — just valued at $11 billion) has a clear thesis on where the team is looking to […]
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