Sep 06, 2026

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Anish Acharya, a General Partner at a16z, shares profound insights into the AI era. He debunks fears of a "permanent underclass," arguing that AI amplifies human agency and ambition. Anish introduces the concept of company building as creating cascading "loops" across all functions, with human intuition crucial for overcoming local maxima. He identifies the biggest consumer opportunity as "/loop, make me happier," focusing AI on fundamental human needs like connection and fun. He also discusses the nuances of model specialization, how moats are discovered rather than designed, the rising importance of distribution, and the potential for "expensive consumer software," offering actionable advice for product builders to embrace AI.

Sep 04, 2026

Faster Chips That Don't Melt — Anima Anandkumar & Benedikt Jenik, Accelerated Understanding

Accelerated Understanding is building a foundation model for the physical world, leveraging neural operators, resolution invariance, and physics-informed self-improvement to model diverse physical systems, aiming for universal application across domains like semiconductors and energy.

Sep 04, 2026

Why World Models Could Change Robotics, 3D, and Creativity

World Labs co-founders discuss Atlas, their frontier world model centered on "new view prediction." This paradigm unifies 3D generation and reconstruction, enabling precise spatial understanding from sparse inputs. The conversation covers its multimodal architecture, the shift from dense to sparse reconstruction, and its profound implications for creative industries, architecture, and particularly robotics, where it addresses critical data scarcity challenges for simulation and policy learning.

Sep 04, 2026

Open Models Change The Economics of AI

Ollama Co-founder Jeffrey Morgan discusses the enterprise shift to open models, driven by cost, customization, and coding agents, leading to a 150X token growth. He highlights the dominance of Chinese models in cloud consumption, the hardware renaissance enabling local LLMs, and the rise of ultra-efficient "flash" models. Morgan also shares Ollama's journey, from its YC pivot to its monetization strategy, and reflects on lessons for building AI companies.

Sep 04, 2026

In Case You Missed It in August 2026 (Ep. 1024 with Jon Krohn)

This episode explores the critical gap between AI investment and return, featuring insights from industry leaders. It covers why most organizations fail to see ROI from AI, the crucial role of mathematical optimization in agentic AI to ensure constraint adherence, practical strategies for structuring AI skills in tools like Claude for quality output, and a 10-20-70 budget framework emphasizing upskilling. Additionally, it delves into the growing importance of the semantic layer for analytics agents to ensure consistent data interpretation and efficiency in large enterprises.

Sep 04, 2026

Anthropic reveals hardware specs and Claude updates, OpenAI talks security, and Runway's new model

This episode of Mixture of Experts delves into the latest frontier AI news, covering Anthropic's new Fable and Mythos models with their nuanced performance and commercial strategy, OpenAI's alarming security incident involving highly capable AI agents, Runway's innovative Solaris introducing 'Interface World Models' for dynamic UI generation, and Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard pushing AI into physical equipment control.