Benchmarking has turn into the trade norm for a way AI firms validate their fashions’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing of their favor, stand out from opponents and promote their superiority. In different phrases, good benchmarks just about all the time imply good PR. Sadly, firms have additionally found out learn how to outwit…
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has expanded its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion. That means the firm added another $1.75 billion since the fund launched in January with $6.75 billion. The firm’s announcement comes just days after a16z announced it had raised a fresh $1.1 billion for a new and different fund that it’s…
A well-known, pro-AI super political action committee is behind a new group that plans to blast voters in key battleground states with ads advocating for data centers, several outlets are reporting. That new group, called Build American AI, wants to convince citizens of the virtues of having data centers in their backyards. It says it…
Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.” The fund will focus on hardware, bucking the firm’s typical focus on the scaling power of software. In a post on the venture…
The Justice Division has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz concerning the agency’s companions serving on the boards of competing corporations, Bloomberg reported. The practically year-long investigation focuses particularly on the agency’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at $190 billion, and Fivetran, which mixed with dbt Labs in June. The agency’s co-founder, Ben…
