a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a caller “Machine Age” money with $1.1 cardinal raised. The firm’s purpose with the caller money is to “open the throttle and accelerate the carnal buildout of AI.”

The money volition absorption connected hardware, bucking the firm’s emblematic absorption connected the scaling powerfulness of software. In a station connected the task superior firm’s website, a16z says the money volition absorption connected investing successful the infrastructure that powers AI — a swath that includes everything from machine chips and representation to information centers and robots.

“We request faster, much businesslike systems. We request cheaper and higher-bandwidth representation crossed the representation hierarchy. We request faster and much scalable interconnects betwixt nodes and systems. We request powerfulness businesslike borderline devices for AI to research and interact with the world. And of people we request each the cooling, materials, electrical, and existent property physique retired to enactment them,” the station reads.

AI is the “strongest instrumentality ever developed for solving problems and bestowing abundance,” the steadfast writes, calling its advancement a “social and nationalist imperative.”