A16z Just Raised $1.7b For Ai Infrastructure. Here’s Where It’s Going.

Andreessen Horowitz conscionable raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the 1 responsible for immoderate of its biggest, astir prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.  

A16z ⁠general partner with nan infra squad Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – conscionable weighted at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis connected where the squad is looking to spend it’s latest chunk of cash. 

Watch as Venture and Startups editor Julie Bort talks pinch Li on ⁠Equity⁠ about where a16z sees this AI ace cycle going next, including the talent crunch hitting AI-native startups, why hunt infrastructure matters much than group think, and what kinds of companies are actually getting funded correct now. 

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