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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 liable 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 the infra squad Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – conscionable valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a wide thesis connected where the squad is looking to spend it’s latest chunk of cash.
Watch as Venture and Startups editor Julie Bort talks with Li on Equity about where a16z sees this AI ace cycle going next, including the endowment crunch hitting AI-native startups, wherefore hunt infrastructure matters much than radical think, and what kinds of companies are actually getting funded close now.
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