A16Z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, is a well-known venture capital institution in the United States, especially good at the Internet and new technology fields. Past success stories include Airbnb, Pinterest, Clubhouse, etc. It is also an early investor in Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
In recent years, A16Z has gradually focused on areas such as blockchain, virtual currency and artificial intelligence. It is said that OpenAI also received investment from A16Z at the beginning of its establishment.
By analyzing the investment layout of A16Z in AIGC, we can better understand the latest progress in the commercialization of generative AI and which potential unicorns deserve attention.
Before introducing these start-up companies, it is worth pointing out that at the end of April, A16Z, Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital and other top venture capital institutions jointly bought OpenAI’s new shares worth 300 million US dollars, which made OpenAI’s valuation The value is approaching the $30 billion mark.
Apparently, A16Z has invested in all aspects of the AIGC field, from unicorns to start-ups.
(Please note that not all of the investment amounts described below were funded by A16Z.)
** **Replicate
February 21st
A round
$17.8 million
From the official screenshot
One of the problems with the rapid development of generative AI is that it is too difficult for current software engineers to use. You must be very familiar with machine learning related content to use them, and the entire industry lacks machine learning experts.
Replicate helps software engineers use large models directly by providing solutions for running and hosting models. The open source model database provided by Replicate is very powerful and easier to use than its competitors. It is said that software developers can start calling these models with only a few lines of code, without having to understand host settings or complex Python/CUDA issues.
Mobius AI
March 1st
Valuation: $100 million
At present, there is no detailed information about Mobius AI on the Internet. We only know that it is a new generative AI, founded by four Google researchers. Due to the involvement of A16Z and another top venture capital Index Ventures, its valuation quickly reached 100 million dollars.
Due to the lack of more information, it is currently impossible to make a specific assessment of the capabilities of Mobius AI, but it is generally believed that the high valuation of Mobius AI reflects the current market optimism towards the AIGC field.
Coactive
March 23rd
A round
$14 million
From the official screenshot
Coactive is an application that processes image and video data. It has a built-in large model to understand visual content. For many B-end customers, the current data sets, from ImageNet to LAION, are not enough to support commercial content. Well, because their data comes from the public Internet, and to B customers need more accurate data sets, which is the value of Coactive, which frees customers from manual labeling and supervised machine learning for training internal data.
Character.ai
March 23rd
A round
150 million US dollars
From the official screenshot
Among the AI-related companies invested by A16Z, Character.ai may be the most famous one. A16Z participated in its A round of financing with an amount of 150 million US dollars.
Character.ai is a chatbot application that uses a neural language model. Users can participate in the design and tuning of the robot's "human design", and can also conduct various conversations with robots designed by other users. Character.ai developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas also contributed to the development of Google's LaMDA large model.
Its beta version was launched in September last year, and A16Z’s A-round investment brought its valuation to $1 billion.
Replit
April 25th
Round B2
$97 million
From the official screenshot
Replit is an IDE start-up company founded in 2016. The online collaborative IDE it provides supports multiple languages including Java, Python, and C++, and supports multiple users to work together. But the most attractive thing is that it has developed a generative AI tool called Ghostwriter. As the name suggests, it can help users provide suggestions and explanations about code. The functional principle is very similar to GitHub's copilot, but Ghostwriter is also able to talk to users and Test run code directly.
Replit claims that Ghostwriter is the world's first AI conversational tool for IDE-based developers.
A16Z led the B2 round, raising $97.4 million, giving Replit a valuation of $1.16 billion.
Pinecone
April 26th
Round B
100 million US dollars
From the official screenshot
Explaining the function of Pinecone in a brief language is that it can solve the "illusion" hallucination problem produced by the large model. Anyone who has worked with large models has the experience that large models give answers that have fundamental logical errors.
As a vector database, Pinecone is expected to solve this problem technically. As an external database, developers can store large model-related context data in it. In-context learning in this context is more flexible and low-cost through preprocessing. The cost of improving the performance of large models.
Hippocratic AI
May 17th
seed round
50 million US dollars
From the official screenshot
Last week (17th), Hippocratic AI announced that it had received a $50 million seed round of financing co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The official website claims that Hippocratic AI is the first safe LLM (Large Language Model) in the health field. The developed chatbot focuses on the field of medical teaching and can simulate various types of patients talking to doctors, thereby helping doctors in the absence of clinical experience. down for training.
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Take a look at the AI companies that A16Z has invested heavily in, what secret weapons do they have?
Text: Neil Shen Editor: VickyXiao
A16Z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, is a well-known venture capital institution in the United States, especially good at the Internet and new technology fields. Past success stories include Airbnb, Pinterest, Clubhouse, etc. It is also an early investor in Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
In recent years, A16Z has gradually focused on areas such as blockchain, virtual currency and artificial intelligence. It is said that OpenAI also received investment from A16Z at the beginning of its establishment.
By analyzing the investment layout of A16Z in AIGC, we can better understand the latest progress in the commercialization of generative AI and which potential unicorns deserve attention.
Before introducing these start-up companies, it is worth pointing out that at the end of April, A16Z, Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital and other top venture capital institutions jointly bought OpenAI’s new shares worth 300 million US dollars, which made OpenAI’s valuation The value is approaching the $30 billion mark.
Apparently, A16Z has invested in all aspects of the AIGC field, from unicorns to start-ups.
(Please note that not all of the investment amounts described below were funded by A16Z.)
**
**Replicate
February 21st
A round
$17.8 million
One of the problems with the rapid development of generative AI is that it is too difficult for current software engineers to use. You must be very familiar with machine learning related content to use them, and the entire industry lacks machine learning experts.
Replicate helps software engineers use large models directly by providing solutions for running and hosting models. The open source model database provided by Replicate is very powerful and easier to use than its competitors. It is said that software developers can start calling these models with only a few lines of code, without having to understand host settings or complex Python/CUDA issues.
Mobius AI
March 1st
Valuation: $100 million
At present, there is no detailed information about Mobius AI on the Internet. We only know that it is a new generative AI, founded by four Google researchers. Due to the involvement of A16Z and another top venture capital Index Ventures, its valuation quickly reached 100 million dollars.
Due to the lack of more information, it is currently impossible to make a specific assessment of the capabilities of Mobius AI, but it is generally believed that the high valuation of Mobius AI reflects the current market optimism towards the AIGC field.
Coactive
March 23rd
A round
$14 million
Coactive is an application that processes image and video data. It has a built-in large model to understand visual content. For many B-end customers, the current data sets, from ImageNet to LAION, are not enough to support commercial content. Well, because their data comes from the public Internet, and to B customers need more accurate data sets, which is the value of Coactive, which frees customers from manual labeling and supervised machine learning for training internal data.
Character.ai
March 23rd
A round
150 million US dollars
Among the AI-related companies invested by A16Z, Character.ai may be the most famous one. A16Z participated in its A round of financing with an amount of 150 million US dollars.
Character.ai is a chatbot application that uses a neural language model. Users can participate in the design and tuning of the robot's "human design", and can also conduct various conversations with robots designed by other users. Character.ai developers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas also contributed to the development of Google's LaMDA large model.
Its beta version was launched in September last year, and A16Z’s A-round investment brought its valuation to $1 billion.
Replit
April 25th
Round B2
$97 million
Replit is an IDE start-up company founded in 2016. The online collaborative IDE it provides supports multiple languages including Java, Python, and C++, and supports multiple users to work together. But the most attractive thing is that it has developed a generative AI tool called Ghostwriter. As the name suggests, it can help users provide suggestions and explanations about code. The functional principle is very similar to GitHub's copilot, but Ghostwriter is also able to talk to users and Test run code directly.
Replit claims that Ghostwriter is the world's first AI conversational tool for IDE-based developers.
A16Z led the B2 round, raising $97.4 million, giving Replit a valuation of $1.16 billion.
Pinecone
April 26th
Round B
100 million US dollars
Explaining the function of Pinecone in a brief language is that it can solve the "illusion" hallucination problem produced by the large model. Anyone who has worked with large models has the experience that large models give answers that have fundamental logical errors.
As a vector database, Pinecone is expected to solve this problem technically. As an external database, developers can store large model-related context data in it. In-context learning in this context is more flexible and low-cost through preprocessing. The cost of improving the performance of large models.
Hippocratic AI
May 17th
seed round
50 million US dollars
Last week (17th), Hippocratic AI announced that it had received a $50 million seed round of financing co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The official website claims that Hippocratic AI is the first safe LLM (Large Language Model) in the health field. The developed chatbot focuses on the field of medical teaching and can simulate various types of patients talking to doctors, thereby helping doctors in the absence of clinical experience. down for training.