2024 Big Ideas: Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime Takes Off

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Voice-First Apps, AI Moats, Never-Ending Games, and Anime. 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	Voice is the way that humans have communicated with each other since really the day that communication was born
0:05.5	But voice has never really worked as an interface for technology
0:09.3	10 years ago. I probably would have called that experience magical.
0:13.0	The exciting thing is that this first wave is already happening right now.
0:18.0	It's not a theory, it's reality.
0:20.0	Anime is just able to combine many different types of player profiles because a lot of people like
0:25.1	anime and there's a lot of different player types.
0:27.8	An awesome user experience can raise switching costs, strengthen network network effects, and empowered brand.
0:35.0	You've just got to start building.
0:37.0	Drone Swarming, reinventing early education with AI,
0:42.0	plus AI companions going 3D and games that may never end.
0:47.1	We asked investment partners across A16Z to preview one big idea that they believe will spur innovation in 2024.
0:55.6	And from this exercise, our team compiled a list of 40-plus Builder Worthy Pursuits that you can
1:00.9	find at A16Z.com slash Big Ideas 2024.
1:05.7	Or you can click the link in our show notes.
1:08.4	But today, we continue our three-part series
1:11.0	as we look forward 2024 together with our partners across all our
1:14.8	verticals from Bion Health to Games to American dynamism and more. So in part one
1:20.0	we covered what it'll really take to democratize quote miracle drugs like
1:23.8	g LP ones but also programmable medicine's final frontier and AI interpretability.
1:29.7	On deck today we discuss how AI and other tech runs are being applied to the world of consumer and games.
1:37.0	For example, is Voice finally having its moment?
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