A16z just raised $1.7 billion for AI infrastructure. Here’s where things go.

Andreessen Horowitz has just caused quite a stir ⁠New financing worth $15 billion⁠. A portion of this amount, worth $1.7 billion, will go to its partners ⁠Infrastructure team⁠which is responsible for some of its largest and most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, and OpenAI, ⁠Eleven laboratories⁠ideograms, ⁠Val⁠ And dozens of others.

A16z ⁠General Partner with the IR team Jennifer Lee⁠ (which oversees investments like ElevenLabs — which just hit $11 billion); Ideagram and Fall have a clear thesis on where the team is looking to spend the last bit of its money.

Watch as Venture and Startups Editor Julie Port talks with Li ⁠Stocks⁠ On where a16z expects this AI supercycle to go next, including the talent crunch hitting AI startups, why research infrastructure is more important than people think, and what types of companies are actually getting funding right now.

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