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a16z Podcast

a16z Podcast is an investing and business show, hosted by Erik Torenberg, with a new episode every day.

22 moments cut from 9 episodes, 11 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and chips & GPUs.

Also No. 2 of 18 tech podcasts and No. 1 of 17 business podcasts.

New episodes
Daily
Latest
Oct 22, 2026
Moments cut
22
Episodes cut
9

What its moments are about

  • AI agents4
  • Chips & GPUs4
  • AI startups3
  • Open-weight models3
  • Inference & cost3
  • Cybersecurity3

Best moments from a16z Podcast

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

  1. a16z Podcast · · 5 min

    Military technology helps deter attacks and bring warfighters home

    “And if you look what happened in Operation Midnight Hammer, what happened in Venezuela, what's so far happening in Iran, you see one society just totally dominating.”
    a16z Podcast7:08

  2. a16z Podcast · · 5 min

    AI adoption looks broad but is shallow, with power users far ahead

    “if you think about live deployments at S&P 500 companies, that's at 69 percent.”
    a16z Podcast18:14

  3. a16z Podcast · · 5 min

    Why distillation explains less of China's AI progress than assumed

    “And distillation is a way to effectively spend more money to get what is compute equivalent. Like outputs from a language model are a function of compute.”
    a16z Podcast9:37

  4. a16z Podcast · · 3 min

    RSI means the improver is the thing being improved

    “if you have a system where the improvee, the things being improved, is also the thing that's doing the improvement, you now have a new way to think about it.”
    a16z Podcast5:51

  5. a16z Podcast · · 5 min

    AI speeds chip design, but fab, memory and power still bind

    “I can design the thing in three months, but I can't actually get it into real silicon at scale for nine months.”
    a16z Podcast9:49

  6. a16z Podcast · · 4 min

    AWS reserves GPU capacity to support startups

    “We choose not to do that because we actually want to keep growing the full ecosystem.”
    a16z Podcast18:50

The best a16z Podcast episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

  1. 01Palantir CEO on Iran, AI Weapons and American Domination | a16z American Dynamism SummitMar 12, 2026 · 3 moments
  2. 02Can Open Models Keep Up With OpenAI and Anthropic? | Nathan LambertOct 14, 2026 · 3 moments
  3. 03The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund Now | Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz & Chris DixonOct 22, 2026 · 3 moments
  4. 04AI, Infrastructure, and the Next Investment CycleSep 30, 2026 · 2 moments
  5. 05Recursive Self-Improvement and the Future of AIOct 12, 2026 · 2 moments

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