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BarbAIrians at the Gate: The Financial Opportunity of AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, in Wall Street (1987) Leveraged Buyouts became “a thing” in the 1980s thanks to a form of financial engineering called junk debt. Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

There is a unique window of opportunity today for a new 3D Creation Engine (aka game engine) to revolutionize the way we create games, film, virtual worlds, and simulations. Unity, Unreal, Roblox and Godot – the predominant 3D engines – are all 15+ year old technologies architected for a different era of computing.