The cost required to bring a new form factor to market is just insane.

We've had a reasoning breakthrough with large language models and generative models,

and they're really hungry for new kinds of input and context that the current generation of

interfaces is not providing. The North Star of computing has always been to borrow

like a Steve Jobs quote to be the bicycle for the mind.

The history of hardware has been the history of computers.

Hey, the rate limiter here is silicon. It's sand.

And there's tons of sand in the world and eventually somebody else will figure out how to make sand that does the same thing.

We have adapted to interfaces over the last 60 years,

but the way we interact with computers today is actually dramatically unnatural.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the A16Z podcast.

Now if you're a regular around here, you probably have a sentence for just how important

the topic of artificial

intelligences to A16-Z. In fact it is so important that we decided to create a new

AI-specific podcast, which to no surprise is called AI plus A16 Z.

And no we did not consult AI on naming.

Today you'll get to hear one of the early episodes from that podcast

hosted by venture editor Derek Harris.

Derek sits down with A16C general partner, Anjorie Meta,

to discuss a very important question.

Here it goes.

If we have a new software platform through large language models,

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