Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. And with generative AI tools lowering the barriers to entry for creation, we believe the velocity of player creativity is at an inflection point today.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We demonstrate the overlap below: Real-Time Music Streaming Thus far, most of the emerging generative streaming products have been in the functional music category: apps like Endel , Brain.fm , and Aimi. Note that while we say professional , many of these products also serve indie or amateur creators.)

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

And because the AI (particularly generative AI) space has so recently come on the scene, there aren’t a huge number of vendors! But this is changing - many categories are becoming commoditized leading to massive pricing pressure. The most common product group put in this category is vector databases.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. And with generative AI tools lowering the barriers to entry for creation, we believe the velocity of player creativity is at an inflection point today.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

When you look at how to segment your audience for messaging, consider these three broad categories: Industry: This is your wider audience that cares about who you are and what you do. Category: These are your decision-makers. Understanding these categories can help you tailor your messaging for optimum impact.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. All products with Gen AI-native workflows will share one crucial trait: translating cutting-edge models into an accessible, effective UI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

[03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? Ben: Going to generative AI, 1 of the things that’s been interesting for us as a VC, is we see all kinds of companies.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 7, 2023

As we jump into partnerships with generative AI and apply it our daily tasks, we’ll have to be aware of and monitor developments in its weaker areas such as transparency, accuracy, and bias. To unpack the potential impact of generative AI tools, it’s important to start from the very beginning: what is AI?

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If R&D is so critical to a company’s success, why then do R&D budgets lack the same discipline of other spend categories? Many companies have good reasons not to conform to R&D benchmarks, especially if they’re creating new categories or building at the forefront of a new technology like generative AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] I think there are 3 categories.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

LLMs have been instrumental in enabling machines to understand, interpret and generate human language in a way that was previously impossible, powering everything from machine translation to content creation to virtual assistants and chatbots. CoPilots Sacks predicts that there will be CoPilots for most job functions, if not already ie.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It will likely take years, or even decades, before we have a full tech stack for generative AI and LLMs and a host of transformative applications—though we have reason to believe the impact is accelerated this time around. While previous AI cycles had plenty of technological advances, they lacked transformative economics. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

One is you have these big categories of knowledge work where there is no way to do more of the particular type of work because productivity is not getting any better—but you’ve got some kind of deficit in society because you actually could use more of it. You’re building for things other than software development.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Begin by signing up and selecting the category you’re interested in. Frequently Asked Questions About AI Tools for Media Creation. What Are the Different Types of AI Tools for Media Generation? AI tools for media are in extensive use and serve a wide variety of purposes. Getting Started With Rephrase.ai.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. Suno is the only music company to make the ranking so far.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The first software category that crossed the famous chasm, CRM, took over 15 years to reach its tipping point⁽¹⁾, and currently, approximately 58% of enterprise software spending still goes to on-premise solutions. The new product, Mokker.ai, uses generative AI to create professional photos from a single product image.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Matthew Miller, principal analyst at G2 focused on AI, agrees. His research of almost 200 categories with generative AI features bares this out. Vertical leaders with new AI capabilities: Software platforms that have grown in a certain vertical, or persona, such as sales, customer support, CRM, or finance.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

And dividual technology was simplifying the complex in a category called made to order. So I talked about that conversation with products, we also have the ability to have conversations with, you know, generative AI, right, the helper, right the assistant, the person that amplifies my intelligence, instead of artificial, more amplification.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Where can you generate AI video today? Why not drop their video models, when their demos look strong and they could have the opportunity to capture meaningful market share in this emerging category? Products We have been tracking 21 public products so far this year. It’s important to remember that these companies move slowly.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 27, 2023

One word of caution I’d offer is that if segmentation is new to your company, leave categories that require more specialized knowledge—like industry vertical, servicing needs, and use cases—until later. Generative AI tools, such as Customer Success AI ™, can help produce or refresh content.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Implement this thought leadership content creation system to streamline the same: Step 1: Define 3 target audience categories It’s important to niche down your desired connections. Learn more – how to enable LinkedIn Creator mode. Doing so serves as a gauge to understand the relevance of the content you write.

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User Pilot

JULY 20, 2023

While there’s no doubt that DALL·E can be used to create stunning visuals for the art world, it can also generate AI images used for marketing purposes. One example would be to ask it for a picture of a cat in an astronaut suit drawn in the style of Salvador Dali (DALL · E’s namesake).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Together with Abhay Parasnis, founder and CEO of Typeface, they chat about what it looks like to be a builder at the forefront of Generative AI. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise. We still don’t know where the category winners will be. This is what Lightspeed calls the 1.0 You move one over to 2.0,

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. By observing these segments, you can glean lessons if you’re building in the same category. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As we’ve written previously , the generative AI revolution in games will cause the price of content to drop dramatically, going effectively to zero in some cases. In our view, AI has the potential to enable entirely new categories of games and we believe that Series AI is poised to lead the way.

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The 15 Best AI Social Media Content Creation Tools There are many different types of AI social media content creation tools out there, each designed to help content creators with specific tasks. Here, I've sorted these AI tools into five distinct categories: 1. 🤔 Why go for it? 🤔 Why go for it?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 2, 2024

This marked a crucial juncture for AI, transitioning from hype to practical use, demanding responsible implementation. While I’m still winning my personal John Henry battle with generative AI, I know my lead won’t last forever. Last year was an amazing year for AI, one that both inspired and frightened us. Bombed out.

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