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Member of the Investing Staff @a16z

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Joined March 2016

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We believe ARVR is among the most underrated markets today. Most people fixate on past (and current) missteps, leading to assumptions that are simply wrong. With ~30m Meta Quest headsets sold and a favorable industry outlook, we think the time is now. ⬇️

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College is broken. Teachers care more about research than teaching. Students care more about grades & jobs than learning. The college itself cares more about donations & rankings than education. Something needs to change

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2011 — Software is eating the world. 2022 — AI is eating software. The most interesting trends, papers, and observations you may have missed in AI for 2022. (read on)

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Two years ago I fell down the AI rabbit hole. Since then, I tried to get (and stay) up to speed in AI — consuming all relevant papers, podcasts, blogs, etc... I could find. Today, I'm sharing a first pass of my reading list. Hopefully it's helpful!

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AI Reading List

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2021 was the year of VR, and I have one stat to show you why: This year, Oculus has sold more headsets than Microsoft did Xboxs. This marks the beginning of ARVR's predominance. A thread on ARVRs growth, use-cases, and future below:

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a16z is building its Games Startup School, SPEEDRUN. It couldn't come at a better time. With AI + new platforms, I believe it's the best moment in history to start a games company. What to build? Well, here's a cheat sheet of AI x Games ideas we're looking for applicants in. 🤝

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OpenAI surpasses Bing for the first time in website traffic

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Two years ago I made a fantasy football draft optimizer. I won 2/7 leagues my first year and 1/4 last year (top scorer in 2/4). This year I'm open sourcing the model + pick optimizer. Last post in the thread has the link.

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For the past year, I've tried to meet most companies building at the intersection of AI x Games. Today, I'm excited to share the cornucopia of interesting companies in the space. Here it is: AI x Games – Application Layer — Market Map WIP Figma link below

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SF is back With its highest net migration rate in >6 years, the phoenix rises.

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Life update

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In honor of the @StabilityAI launch party — a chart of Github stars for key repositories over time. Congrats to @EMostaque for going vertical and @ClemDelangue for passing Bitcoin

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Social is VR's killer app Similar to how social was the killer app of previous computing platforms, we believe social is the killer app of ARVR. If you’ve played in Social VR, you’ve probably noticed one thing - it’s a kid’s world. These kids do nearly anything but play the…

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I compiled all the public NFL analytics research I could find. This way anyone can stay up to date on the work being done. Click the link! I obviously missed a bunch, but I made the doc editable for anyone. So please add your work and edit the wording!

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Why open source? Because: - It's still unfinished - I didn't have time to build a software product - I'd like people to use it - I don't think any of my friends are going to figure the github out, so I still have some alpha Here it is!

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GitHub - jsoslow2/fantasy-football-models

Contribute to jsoslow2/fantasy-football-models development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Generative AI is the calculator for the creative mind

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1) Papers released over time is accelerating. This is the backdrop for the recent overwhelming amount of AI progress. Let's dig in.

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2) Foundation models captured the zeitgeist. - Midjourney is the largest Discord ever. - Stable Diffusion is the fastest company repo reach 35k stars ever. - ChatGPT reached 1 million users in 5 days.

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5) Data is the new bottleneck Google compares two LLMs, where one has 4x less params but ~4x more data. The one with more data ends up significantly more accurate. Therefore for LLMs, compute is no longer the biggest lever, but rather data is.

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There's an impressive list of former Oculus employees who are founders of Series A+ companies: - Palmer Luckey, Founder of Anduril - John Carmack, CEO of Keen Technologies - Nate Mitchell, CEO of Mountaintop - Matt Hansen, Co-founder of Mountaintop - Nirav Patel, CEO of…

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3) AI has begun improving itself. 1. AlphaTensor — Optimizes matrix multiplication 2. PrefixRL — Optimizes circuit placement on chips 3. LLMs can self improve — LLMs fine-tune on their own generations

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PrefixRL: Optimization of Parallel Prefix Circuits using Deep...

In this work, we present a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach to designing parallel prefix circuits such as adders or priority encoders that are fundamental to high-performance digital...

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This is incredible. By being unsupervised, Genie solves many of the problems inherent in AI video game generation. Just read through the paper and here's a quick summary. This paper introduces: 1. Latent Action Model (LAM) — with nothing other than video, the model infers…

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Google presents Genie Generative Interactive Environments introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual…

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Ecstatic to announce that I've joined the a16z Consumer Investing team! 🚀🚀 I'm ready to utilize Data in Venture and learn from my spectacular peers in: @andrewchen , @conniechan , @omooretweets , @Tocelot , @sriramk , @kirbyman01 , @anneleeskates , @DCoolican , and @jeff_jordan

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Excited to share a16z's investment alongside @andrewchen into Gym Class VR, the future of basketball! @Gymclassvr , @pavtalk , @HatthewMarris , @Juicebox775

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4) Scaling Laws Improve Historically, AI has scaled through a power law. (IE log(scale) returns log(Y) benefit in accuracy) Meta shows that through data-pruning (IE disregard useless examples), you can achieve exponential scaling (big deal!)

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12) AI Accelerating Fusion DeepMind was able to control inherently unstable plasma by using AI to coordinate a tokamak's many magnetic coils. It can shape + control plasma in new ways, and it's a huge unlock for fusion.

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All considered, the key trends I'm following in AI are: 1. Acceleration 2. The Democratization of AI 3. AI Improving Itself 4. US vs China — The latent space race 5. Software simulators to solve real world problems 6. Bridging domains — ie turning video data into 3d data

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Here at @a16z GAMES FUND ONE - we see Games as one of the first verticals disrupted by Generative AI. Read our thinking here: And follow me, @gwertz , and @tkexpress11 for more in AI

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15) The democratization of AI continues. It took 1 year for GPT-3 to see open source LLM alternatives It took 1 month for DALL-E 2 to see the same

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Despite the public market’s signal, innovation persists. @a16z has many ARVR portcos (multiple unannounced) that are growing rapidly and looking to hire. If you’re interested in the future of computing, shoot me a dm and I’ll connect you to the right person on the right team.

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Sharing one chart from my VR megapost tomorrow The VR competitive landscape is extremely attractive for new devs:

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1⃣ In 2019, Oculus launched the Quest, which achieved product market fit in casual, immersive gaming. The ensuing year Oculus launched the Quest 2 which improved headset performance, decreased size, and lowered the price. It unlocked social gaming and fitness.

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Excited to share a16z's investment into Voldex — a user generated content (UGC) games company with a presence on both Roblox and Minecraft!

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6) Overfitting be gone! 2.0 Grokking shows that at certain scale on small algorithmic datasets, AI transitions from fitting generalized curves to literally "grokking" the dataset generation rule. This makes them perfect predictors.

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7) Learning capabilities can "emerge" within LLMs After a certain scale, LLMs can go from slowly learning something to rapidly learning something. LLMs picking up on the underlying pattern is called emergence. It applies to addition, QandA, and more

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We're thrilled to announce @a16zGames investment in @kaedim3d ! As costs soar and studios seek solutions, Kaedim's approach stands out. By empowering an internal art team with AI, Kaedim meets studios' requirements, reduces costs, and generates valuable data in the process. 🧵

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10) Coherence solved? Dreambooth mitigates the coherence problem in image generation (consistent generations) by binding a unique identifier to a fine-tuned model. This method powers the AI avatar creators, game asset generators, AI movies, and more.

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6⃣ Demand presence. VR is immersion. It commands your complete attention. Casual doomscrolling or async communication don't fit. Presence heavy use-cases include: Fitness @getsupernatural Social Interactions @recroom @VRChat Gaming Meditation @officialflowly Work @ImmersedVR

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Proud to be named Special Teams MVP at the FCS Bowl. I went 4/4 NFL extra points and 3/4 on field goals the one miss being a 54 yarder into the wind.

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What players does it like in 2022? Top RBs: 1. Joe Mixon 2. D'Andre Swift 3. Jonathon Taylor Top WRs: 1. Davante Adams 2. JaMarr Chase 3. Cooper Kupp Top QBs: 1. Patrick Mahomes 2. Justin Herbert 3. Josh Allen Top TEs: 1. Travis Kelce 2. Mark Andrews 3. George Kittle

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2⃣ Most game consoles have their marginal sales decrease over time. The opposite is the case with Oculus. The Quest 2 has ~2x more new users per day than it did at the same time last year.

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16) Academia accounts for a decreasing proportion of large scale AI papers. AI used to be siloed within large research institutions, then big tech, and now is accessible to all via APIs and open source.

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What players are sleepers? RBs: 1. Darrel Williams 2. Damien Harris 3. Josh Jacobs WRs: 1. Amon-Ra St. Brown 2. Hunter Renfrow 3. Tyler Lockett QBs: 1. Joe Burrow 2. Matt Stafford 3. Tom Brady TEs: 1. Mike Gesicki 2. Tyler Higbee 3. Tyler Conklin

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Starting a live thread for my immediate reactions to Meta Connect 🤙 Excited for the announcement for the Quest Pro + all of the frontier research going on behind the scenes

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9) The cost to create performant AI is decreasing. In the case of ImageNet, the cost to achieve 93% accuracy has halved in the past 2 years.

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2023 Fantasy Football Models update: 1. I've won 50% of leagues the past two years 2. The model outperforms ESPN by 20% and is improving 3. I built a simple web UI for anyone to use it Here's a summary thread - website link at the end:

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3⃣ CCSInsight projects the ARVR industry to 6.5x in the next 5 years.

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That's all — huge s/o to @ykilcher for ML News and Paper Reviews, @soundboy and @nathanbenaich for their 2022 State of AI Report, and Stanford for their 2022 AI Index. Yannic YT — State of AI — AI Index —

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AI Index 2022

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Clearing up the occasional misconception about SPEEDRUN 1. This is not your typical "accelerator" — The analogy is less like YC, but more-so a program built to best serve Seed/Pre-Seed founders in-and-around a16z Games. 2. Exceptional founder quality — Of the 9 companies I…

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SR003 APPLICATIONS JUST 𝑫𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑫! Want to secure $750K for your startup? Apply to SPEEDRUN here: (takes 15 mins!) Application Deadline: May 19, 2024 Notified of Selection: End of June at the latest! Program Dates: July 29 - Oct 20 in Los Angeles ☀️

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9⃣ Altogether, VR isn't "coming", it's already here. Alongside this new form factor we'll see new games, tools, and ways to work based around presence. If you're building in ARVR or are contributing to the space, please reach out! Also, let me know what I missed below!

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At the a16z AI Revolution @Tocelot - “In what ways will AI impact games? @DavidBaszucki - “The better question is the antithesis… in what ways will it not?”

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a16z is a VR true believer — investing in VR since the beginning. Today, we double down and proudly announce our investment in @RealAlta — partnering with them to bring people together across all of VR! 🕶️🥂

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"Leveraging AI will be the most important skill of the decade, and it will require a complete restructuring in how most people think" A fun slack conversation with colleagues @Tocelot , @vijaypande , @conniechan , and @BornsteinMatt !

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EA in a nutshell

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11) Diplomacy cracked. In Diplomacy, you try to conquer Europe against 6 other players/countries. It is a game of cooperation, negotiation, and manipulation. CICERO achieves human level performance by tying strategic reasoning to natural language.

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5⃣ Meet the medium. Unlike consoles, VR's inputs are not buttons. VR's inputs are the movement of your arms and head. Apps that exploit the inputs "meet the medium" and defeat motion sickness. Gorilla Tag, @BeatSaber , @townshiptale , and @SUPERHOTTHEGAME do this well.

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20) US banned NVIDIA and AMD from exporting their best GPUs to China. This will hamper China AI R&D at least temporarily. The question is how long it will take for China to build their own similar quality GPUs (which is trade secret and conceivably very... very... hard to do)

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14) The foundation model land grab After the explosion of LLMs and text-to-image models, there's been a race to be the first mover in new domains: - Audio (Whisper, Harmonai), - Video (Make-a-Video, Imagen Video) - 3d (Dreamfusion, Magic3d)

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4⃣ While VR has lower timespent per session than consoles, VR is a new form factor with unique use-cases. The use-cases that thrive in VR primarily do three things: 1. Meet the medium. 2. Demand presence. 3. Enable the implausible.

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Funny enough - games are now one of the healthiest forms of media. The "sedation" of America's youth is a huge problem: - Attention spans have decreased from 12 to 8 seconds. - Kids want "decision free conveyor belts" of media - Rise of passive media. Kids are posting less and…

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18) The US vs China "Latent Space Race" is heating up The US is releasing the most AI research with China #2 , but China's rate of growth is faster.

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13) Bridging domains for more data To create a labeled Minecraft dataset, OpenAI used inverse dynamics on Minecraft videos to find the user's actions. This data collection across domains (video<>3d) will become more common as data becomes more valuable

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Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTraining

We trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using only a small amount of labeled contractor data. With...

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A question I ask AI founders, "Are you building a tool or a soul?" A tool: - Does what you want - Does no more A soul: - Has wants, needs, desires - Can choose to not follow orders - Has a life outside your query

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On the train I looked at the relationship of game-theory in NFL play-calling. What I found is that on an average passes are more valuable. However, in situations where the defense expects you to pass, runs are more valuable. No surprise but deserves more investigation.

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I'll be joining the Oculus Data Science team at Facebook. This is a really big deal for me, and I couldn't be more excited. Oculus is creating the future of interfaces, right now, live, on air. The people there are so smart, thoughtful, and innovative. I can't wait to help. 😎

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For the past three months, I've had the pleasure to work hand-in-hand with these 9 companies. They're going to change the world. Here they are!

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7⃣ Enable the implausible In the headset, VR is reality, and through code, VR has the flexibility to recreate the best of almost any experience. Want to fish? @realVRFishing Climb Everest? @theclimb Dodge a punch? @thrillofthefight Ender's Game? @EchoVR

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19) The US is lagging behind China in new chip projects and the speed to production. This is important as all models scale alongside compute. The US recently passed a $250b in semiconductor R&D + production to hopefully soften this disparity.

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Today, generative 3D struggles with topology due to architectural limitations. Most models use score-distillation-sampling (SDS) or its derivatives. SDS leverages neural rendering not surface geometry. Extracting clean meshes from NeRFs remains an open research problem.

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The Seed and The Soil Entrepreneurs are like gardeners, planting the seeds of their ideas in the fertile soil of markets. The seed is the product, the embodiment of the entrepreneur's vision and hard work. The soil is the market, the users, the very environment in which the…

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I love the NFL because both these humans can play the same sport professionally

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Oculus started with missionaries religiously dedicated to creating the next computing platform. Then came the mercenaries — FB/Insta folk running towards Oculus's internal funding. I had to leave. The complacency plague was too much. Thank you for fighting it @ID_AA_Carmack

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I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes. Here is the full thing:

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Why did I make it? 1. ESPN rankings are trash 2. ML is better than humans in high dimensional, numeric domains 3. I was in 7 fantasy leagues out of college and didn't have time for them all 4. I want to win 5. I would rather be good at data-science than be a football savant

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Proud of this GIF

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14:13 (2Q) DID YOU SEE THAT Jack Soslow Good From 48 YARDS! He's 2-for-2 Today And Penn Leads, 20-3! #CollegeKickers #UPrising

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@sama The only way out is through. So, accelerate.

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8) AI only scales through power laws. BNSL asserts that AI scales through a combination of power-laws with different slopes at different scales. It accurately models double descent and helps explain phenomena like emergence or grokking @ethanCaballero

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Absolutely pumped to be working with The Promenade's NPC-suite on their mission to create previously impossible games with AI. First of many in this year's Speedrun class! @npceo_ @jdmtr_ @RealSelimShady

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let’s fucking GO

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In completely unrelated news — I'm going to be moving into Andrew's SF home

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I have some personal updates. Moving to LA, a new role at a16z, and more! Here's the post: My blog is officially back! I’m excited to restart my writing here, after a long hiatus.

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Incredibly excited to be teaming up @andrewchen , @Tocelot , @gwertz , and @zebird0 on a16z's new Games Fund! I've been a gamer my entire life. Growing up games helped me find community, explore alternate identities, and gave me the confidence I could accomplish great things.

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thread/ announcing the @a16z games fund - a new $600M fund dedicated to investing in the best founders in the games industry! over the past decade, our firm has been privileged to back some truly amazing game teams. our new fund accelerates these efforts. more 👇

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We are doubling down on PrismsVR. VR is built for immersion, focus, and aligning our digital experience with our daily one. There are few better uses for the technology than education, and few more disruptive companies and founders than @PrismsOfReality + @aganguly26

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We’re thrilled to announce a $12.5 million Series A round led by @a16z @jeff_jordan @anneleeskates @JackSoslow . This milestone comes on the heels of launching on the @Meta Quest store, expanding the reach of PrismsVR math literacy solution for all.

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Bots deserve rights! This + many more hot takes on the inaugural @a16zGames podcast. Here, @Chen , @Tocelot , and I walk through AI advancements and its applications in games.

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For all of these ideas, someone who starts a company today has an opportunity to be the market's first mover. If you're interested in any of the above, games-adjacent technology, or starting a games company at large, please apply to SPEEDRUN!

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Some views from last night

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A huge thank you to @100Thieves , @Zedd , @NoahJ456 , and everyone who turned up for CITY OF GAMES. Our goal was to gather the gaming industry of LA together all under one roof - from creators, founders, platforms, and investors. Mission accomplished! 📸 : @LoganDodson

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1. "Social Engineering" Core Loops — skill expression is either mechanical (wombo combo) or strategic (checkmate) + AI enables believable, programmable social interaction Opportunity — Games for interacting with AIs (ie coordinating with 20 AIs to escape a prison)

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A sign of the singularity is AI improving itself. Two recent papers move in this direction: 1. AlphaTensor — optimizing matrix multiplication with AI 2. PrefixRL — optimizing arithmetic circuit design for NVIDIA's H100 AI chip

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Designing Arithmetic Circuits with Deep Reinforcement Learning | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Learn how NVIDIA researchers use AI to design better arithmetic circuits that power our AI chips.

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8⃣ Today, VR has surpassed an incumbent game console in sales, but VR is capable of far more. Of course expect metaverses to proliferate. But, growing commensurately will be use-cases that require presence such as deep work, collaboration, education, and mental health.

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AI is far-and-away the largest category of events at SF and LA #techweek — already 28 in SF and 18 in LA. Every day it seems like another hackathon, workshop, or meetup are added. You can check out the events here:

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a16z presents Tech Week 2024! Join us for tech weeks in SF, LA, and NYC this year to create IRL connections across the major tech hubs.

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The surest way to lose the next computing platform is by sitting on the sidelines claiming, "I told you so!" whenever negative VR news comes out. @Gymclassvr @PrismsOfReality @readyplayerme @RealAlta @SandboxVR are all ripping. We choose to bet on the future.

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haters have come out for VR/AR, the metaverse, etc - as we see what kinds of R&D is required to build these kinds of platforms @JackSoslow has an amazing thread (charts attached) on the good trends: I'm bullish too, and here's what I'm investing in👇

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no, the images aren't AI generated yes, the birds are paid actors

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@readyplayerme @timmutoke @a16z

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17) Horizontal model aggregators + tools have been growing Two examples of this are Huggingface and Replicate. Huggingface, for example, had a "gradually, then suddenly" moment, where they grew pretty consistently until the DALL-E mini release, when usage went up 4.5x overnight.

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AI's rate of innovation is quickly approaching the point where no individual can synthesize all of the new research.

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People ask: "What's going to be the first one person billion dollar company?" The answer exists and it's @LemmingVR with @GorillaTagVR * *Kerestell has since built a strong team, but throughout much of Gtag's explosive growth Kerestell was the only person running the business

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As you may have seen yesterday — we at a16z are ecstatic to be leading the Seed of PrismsVR, a VR edtech company! Prisms is a case study in two things: 1. A founder with an indomitable spirit 2. How technology is a force for good @aganguly26 @PrismsOfReality mini 🧵

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4. "AI-enabled" Game Studios — games are expensive, long, RnD projects + generative AI pushes the cost of creation to zero + AAA poorly suited to change workflows. Opportunity — Utilize AI tools and flexible asset pipelines to compete with AAA.

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1) The VR market is larger than perceived: - Meta alone sells ~10m headsets annually, comparable to Xbox. - The Meta Quest 2 is the top selling console on Amazon. - Meta Quest store has generated >$2b in rev or >$500m annually, comparable to UGC payouts.

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