Build Your Startup With AI

Welcome back to "The Ben & Marc Show," featuring a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. In this new episode – the first of two parts – Marc and Ben answer YOUR questions on the “State of AI” as it relates to company building. In this one-on-one conversation, Ben and Marc discuss how small AI startups can compete with Big Tech’s massive compute and data scale advantages, unpack the reasons why data is overrated as a sellable asset, and uncover all the ways the AI boom compares to the internet boom. That and much more. Enjoy! **Watch Part II: https://youtu.be/QyyWsr1NMt8 Topics Covered: 00:00:00 Teaser 00:00:42 Intro 00:01:14 How AI startups can compete with the bigger players 00:05:57 Will the the "God models" get 100x better? 00:09:19 Counter argument: Are the tests too simple? 00:10:14 Internet data represents average human activity 00:11:50 AI's ability to unlock latent super genius limits 00:15:30 Neural networks exhibit generalized learning and computation functions 00:17:01 Reports of self improvement loops 00:19:10 Current data improvements 00:22:05 Challenges for AI applications 00:25:48 Business value-based pricing model 00:29:38 Two diametrically opposed questions about AI's impact on tech investment 00:32:48 The Jevons Paradox 00:36:46 John Maynard Keynes vs. Karl Marx 00:39:29 Demand for softwares is perfectly elastic 00:41:12 AI based medical diagnosis 00:42:09 Reality of data moats 00:48:06 Big companies and actionable data validation 00:52:05 Big companies using stolen data 00:53:07 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) 00:57:53 Comparison of AI boom and internet boom 01:02:23 Marc's prediction for the AI industry 01:08:07 Lessons learned from internet era 01:12:12 Big companies trying to lock down AI 01:13:28 Core VC assumes half of investments will fail 01:19:25 Sign off #ai #startup #business #tech #technology #founders #artificialintelligence #internet #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #culture #news Listen to Us!