a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
Andreessen Horowitz is setting aside fresh capital for the physical layer behind AI.
The firm raised $1.1 billion for a new “Machine Age” fund aimed at hardware and infrastructure. Techmeme’s excerpt says the fund is meant to accelerate the physical buildout of AI, including areas like silicon, data centers, robotics, power, cooling, networking, memory, and storage. The framing from a16z and its partners is that AI’s next bottlenecks are not just model software, but the systems needed to run and scale it. Techmeme's note
The firm raised $1.1 billion for a new “Machine Age” fund aimed at hardware and infrastructure. Techmeme’s excerpt says the fund is meant to accelerate the physical buildout of AI, including areas like silicon, data centers, robotics, power, cooling, networking, memory, and storage. The framing from a16z and its partners is that AI’s next bottlenecks are not just model software, but the systems needed to run and scale it. Techmeme's note
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