It was an honor to hang out with Jensen Huang, CEO of
@nvidia
, and do a long-form podcast with him. Really fun & fascinating technical deep-dive conversation on & off the mic. One of the most brilliant & thoughtful human beings I've ever met. NVIDIA is the most valuable company
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet, their most capable model yet. It outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro on multiple benchmarks while being faster and more cost-effective than Claude 3 Opus.
GPT-4o brings native multimodal capabilities to ChatGPT, enabling real-time voice conversations, image understanding, and code interpretation in a single model.
@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara: "I think that politics are going to get better because you're going to have a way faster feedback loop on the messaging and the policies."
"Right now when a candidate says 10 things and they win or they lose, you're trying to make one https://
Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.
@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour on the growing demand for better sources of information:
"There wasn't a real pain 10 or 15 years ago in the way there is pain in the last few years."
"I think the country is more polarized. I would say the world is more polarized."
"Social http
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]
Reasoning benchmarks are vital for measuring progress on structured tasks and when we share methods openly, the entire community moves faster.
To put this into practice, we’re excited to announce the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge hosted by @NVIDIAAIDev and powered by
@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says now that software is no longer a precious resource, it becomes ubiquitous—and often disposable:
“It’s sort of like generative music. I think that music is incredible, but there are not that many people who make music that is disposable, for good reason. A lot
@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says there's an "unbundling" of product management happening:
“There was a part of product management that was very technical—that was sort of pointing people in the direction of a market need.”
“If you look at the big labs, you’ll see the product managers there h
@runwayml [3/18/2026]: A breakthrough in real-time video generation.
As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely
@runwayml [3/18/2026]: Introducing Runway's Big Ad Contest For Products That Don't Exist. Your chance to make any ad you can imagine for up to $100K in cash prizes. No client notes. No producers saying no. Just 7 briefs to choose from and 2 weeks to make your wildest concepts come to life. Big ideas ht
@runwayml [3/19/2026]: Join us in New York on April 2 for a Runway Characters Hackathon.
In this workshop you'll learn how to create your own custom real-time video agents and bring them directly into your apps, websites, products and experiences.
Register now at the link below. https://t.co/PALFauG9
@LumaLabsAI [3/18/2026]: Dream Brief submissions rolling in. Made with Luma.
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]
@a16z [3/18/2026]: In the 1990s and 2000s, email “replaced” physical mail and changed the nature of correspondence.
The same thing is happening right now with customer attention. If you think AI is just going to “replace” the call center agent, you’re stuck thinking about first-order effects.
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The Defense Department said concerns that Anthropic might "attempt to disable its technology" during "warfighting operations" validate its decision to label the AI firm a supply-chain risk.
Nvidia has revealed a new “3D guided neural rendering model” called DLSS 5 that can change a game’s lighting and materials in real-time, and… many gamers aren’t happy. From DLSS 5 memes to complaints about how it’s “yassified” Resident Evil Requiem characters in demos, the first impression has not been a good one, no matter how much Nvidia insists that this pursuit of photorealism is still honoring the original artists’ intent.
Follow along below for all the latest updates about Nvidia’s DLSS...
Got a 5th place solo gold in the recent @kaggle @scrollprize competition which was about tracing the layers of 2,000-year-old scrolls buried by Vesuvius so they can be digitally unrolled and read. It’s a bummer I dropped on private LB, but I am really proud of the custom SDF
2 sources discuss model context protocol (mcp), including @figma, @Scale_AI. Browse the MCP catalog Now with @cursor_ai, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @augmentcode, @firebender_com Expanding our code to canvas Figma MCP server capabilities with 5 new partners: Cursor, Warp, Factory, Augment Code, and Firebender.
Anthropic shares on Anthropic / Claude. @AnthropicAI (Anthropic): "We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind. Read more:" | @AnthropicAI (Anthropic): "These interviews capture texture that surveys can’t. They render in detail how people worldwide are already experiencing AI's opportunities and risks. We plan to use Anthropic Interviewer regularly, on different topics, to help inform how AI can be built to benefit everyone."