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Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics swing in their favor, stand out from competitors and advertise their superiority. In other words, good benchmarks pretty much always mean good PR.

Andreessen Horowitz has added $1.75 billion to its fifth growth fund, bringing the vehicle to $8.5 billion just days after closing a separate hardware fund.

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund dedicated to investing in the physical infrastructure required to support the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $1.1 billion fund called Machine Age, dedicated to AI hardware and physical infrastructure. The fund will invest in computer chips, memory, data centers, robots, interconnects, edge devices, and the cooling, materials, electrical capacity, and real estate needed to support AI systems. The move marks a…

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has raised $1.1 billion for its new “Machine Age Fund”, as the venture capital firm looks to accelerate investment in the physical infrastructure required to support the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence. a16z on Friday said the new fund will invest across the computer infrastructure underpinning AI, including chips, memory, networking and…

Andreessen Horowitz today announced that it has raised a $1.1 billion fund to back artificial intelligence infrastructure startups. 

Andreessen Horowitz — the venture capital firm that spent fifteen years arguing software would eat the world — has closed a $1.1 billion fund dedicated exclusively to AI hardware and physical infrastructure, marking the moment Silicon Valley’s most ideologically committed software investor formally declared that physics is now the binding constraint on artificial intelligence. The…

A lengthy federal review is drawing attention to how venture funds manage board seats when portfolio companies move into the same competitive arena.

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported.