andrew chen

HERE’S THE SIGN YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR- for those of you with side projects, late night coding sessions, the jam sessions with friends/cow...

SPEEDRUN 008 APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN we are now taking intros/recos for founders we should be meeting for SR008 We have a new SF office whe...

FINAL day to apply for the Speedrun Alpha fellowship https://speedrun.a16z.com/alpha For students / dropouts / recent grads: we want to in...

wow fleet week. traffic in sf so messed up today that my Waymo was blocked for 15 min and had to escalate to humans in the loop to reroute. ...

Hosting our first hackathon at the Speedrun offices in Jackson square to close out SF Tech Week! See y’all in LA next!! https://twitter.com...

btw Tech Week in SF has grown 10x since we started running it in 2023 Inevitable that this will eventually be the largest tech conference i...

some fun stats from SF Tech Week - the largest ever - with thousands of events and 50k+ attendees. We've more than doubled since we started ...

fun to use town/muse/grokbot after months of being a DAU on hermes/openclaw Reminds me of all the amazing fun and insanity it is to admin y...

DO AGENTS HAVE NETWORK EFFECTS? We are seeing a new wave of general purpose consumer-friendly agents, and it’s causing many thousands o...

SF Tech Week kicks off today!! We’ll be hosting a bunch of events over the next few days, at our new Jackson Square office and for our massi...

who’s in SF next week? We’re hosting, co-hosting, and organizing a bunch of events with great speakers including at our new Jackson Square o...

when the personal computer won, it made $20k+ workstations in 1980s a distant memory - SGI, Next, Sun, etc. I remember thinking, huh why wou...

yup. This is where open weight AI needs to go Customer controlled guardrails >>> black box rules https://twitter.com/abliteration_ai/status...

a fellowship with $250k for recent grads/students - deadline next week link: http://alpha.a16z.com more info 👇 -- Applications are clos...

Love that there’s a bunch of new startups focusing on local AI / sovereign AI / GPU hoarding 😂 speaking my language! Congrats to @zainmfj ...

by now we’re used to: - frontier model launches - 6-12 months later, the chinese open weight models close the gap this week we’re seeing: -...

curious if Jev-like models might accelerate us towards on-device AI native functionality on mobile devices strong LLMs are a long way from ...

Jev is going to change the prosumer/consumer AI landscape by unlocking a specific thing: Ad-supported + free AI native apps this is going ...

ok great now I have 3 messy inboxes I have to check: - stuff my agents have done on scheduled loop that I need to review - bookmarked slac...

current homelab setup for local AI experimentation: - hermes box hosted on a Framework Desktop Mainboard AI Max+ 395 - 5090 eGPU running Qw...