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The a16z Show

2024 Big Ideas: Developer Influence, Maritime Upgrades, and New Video Intelligence

The a16z Show

a16z

Software Eating The World, Science, Technology, Innovation, Culture, Disruption, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A new age of maritime exploration, the rise of the developer as a buyer in financial services, and more applications for computer vision and video intelligence. We asked over 40 partners across a16z to preview one big idea they believe will drive innovation in 2024. Here in our 3-part series, you’ll hear directly from partners across all our verticals, as we dive even more deeply into these ideas. What’s the why now? Who is already building in these spaces? What opportunities and challenges are on the horizon? And how can you get involved?

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0:00.0

This has dramatic implications not only on how financial services are built,

0:04.3

but then also the services that we receive as consumers and businesses.

0:08.4

How much of that data is actually being captured and utilized in some interesting way.

0:14.0

Maritime in many ways has been the genesis of a lot of pieces of technology that

0:18.0

have fundamentally changed the world.

0:20.0

You can imagine a very low maintenance cost of financial services which will open access to many more people.

0:26.0

Where else can AI be applied that isn't what we've been seeing with all the exciting generative creative stuff

0:31.6

and thinking about how these technologies can actually work in these more brick and mortar physical use cases.

0:37.0

Very similar to Amazon, you can't boil the whole ocean at once, you need to thread the needle and go from books to the

0:43.7

everything store. Interpretable large language models a new age of maritime

0:48.8

exploration, democratizing miracle drugs and anime hitting the mainstream.

0:54.7

By now, hopefully you know that we asked investment partners from across A16Z to preview

1:00.0

one big idea that they believe will for innovation in 2024. And our team did compile a list of 40-plus

1:06.8

build-over-thing pursuits that you can find at A16C.com slash Big Ideas 2024.

1:14.3

Today we close out our three-part series around these big ideas together with three more partners

1:19.3

from across our verticals.

1:21.4

In parts one and two two we explored major trends in

1:23.7

bio-health, consumer and games, but today we shone a light on the future of

1:28.1

American dynamism and FinTech. So who's the newest buyer in financial services?

1:33.0

And how can unlocks an artificial intelligence change the value of unstructured video data?

1:38.0

Plus, how on Earth, pun intended, is it that we know more about the surface of Mars than our own sea bed?

1:46.4

Let's dive in. Pun intended again.

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