This week, the a16z Podcast explored the infrastructure and applications reshaping AI's near future. From the compute bottleneck threatening to slow AI progress to the mathematical foundations underpinning next-generation models, episodes traced both the constraints and possibilities emerging as the technology moves from research into real-world domains like healthcare and payments. The thread connecting them: as AI capabilities accelerate, the practical question isn't just what's possible, but what gets built first—and by whom.
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