Hi everyone, welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is your host Steph Smith, and today we

continue the conversation around AI. Now this conversation is ongoing, but today we have

exclusive footage from our Data and AI Forum held last month.

So what we've done is we went through all of the presentations from that forum, and we've aggregated

what we think are the best segments delivered right to your ears.

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information including a link to a list of our investments. So the promises of AI have echoed for decades starting as early as the

50s when artificial intelligence blossomed into its own discipline.

And since then, the field has held so much promise, although AI skeptics would claim the technology

has fallen short of expectations. That is of course, until recently. A string of technology

unlocks from the deep learning Renaissance around 2012. The attention is all you need paper

in 2017 and compute moving down the cost curve

have resulted in numerous applications now in the hands of the masses

including of course Chai TBT which reached 100 million users this January.

As Navidia's CEO Jensen Huang declared in a recent keynote, we are in the iPhone

moment of AI.

In a matter of months, this technology has gone from what seemed like a distant promise

to the everyday internet user leveraging chat-dipit to write emails, mid-journy to generate images

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