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The a16z Show

2024 Big Ideas: Miracle Drugs, Programmable Medicine, and AI Interpretability

The a16z Show

a16z

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

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Smart energy grids. Voice-first companion apps. Programmable medicines. AI tools for kids.
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?

Transcript

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GOP ones are to obesity, what eyeglasses are to nearsightedness.

0:06.0

Where are the reusable rockets for biotech?

0:09.0

Traditional drug development is painstakingly time consuming risky and expensive.

0:14.0

One molecule has no bearing on the next molecule that gets developed.

0:17.5

Like traditional rockets, their one time you sold me.

0:20.3

That's changing.

0:21.6

Now as these models begin to be deployed in real world situations, the big question is why? Why do these models say the things they do? Why do some prompts produce better results than others? And perhaps most importantly,

0:34.0

how do we control what they do?

0:36.0

Lots of companies are potentially

0:38.0

going to go bankrupt if they have to pay for these drugs,

0:40.0

if they have even one employee

0:42.0

who ends up being eligible for one of these therapies.

0:45.0

And so I do think there is a siren call already from the industry

0:48.0

that will sort of ignite a cycle of innovation.

0:51.0

In a lot of ways, these new programmable medicines are just a fundamentally new

0:54.2

superpower. Smart energy grits, programmable medicines, voice first companion apps, and crime detecting

1:01.9

computer vision.

1:03.0

We asked our investment partners across A16Z to preview one big idea that they believe will spur innovation in 2024.

1:12.0

Now our team compiled a list of 40-plus

1:14.7

builder-worthy pursuits for the coming year that you can now find at A16Z.com

1:19.8

slash Big Ideas 2024.

1:24.0

Or you can click the link in our description.

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