FINAL day to apply for the Speedrun Alpha fellowship speedrun.a16z.com/alpha For students / dropouts / recent grads: we want to invest up to $250k. Come work out of our SF offices and explore ideas, find a cofounder, etc. More details: Start building. We back you pre-entity, pre-idea, pre-team. Apply as an individual. If you already know who you want to build with, great. Have each person apply separately and note who you’re building with. - Up to $250K investment - Automatic final interview for speedrun, up to $1M investment - $1M in credits across AWS, GPC, Azure, Open AI, Anthropic, Cursor and many more. - Coworking space at the speedrun office throughout the fellowship - Office hours and hosted sessions with speedrun partners - 8-week, in-person experience (January 11 – March 5)

Introducing Kardashev-0.7, the world’s first trained swarm made of 32 distinct models Trained with RL for Population Scaling (RLPS), 32 models organically develop specialization & complementary capabilities, delivering frontier performance at: - 0.007x ~ 0.02x of the inference cost - 0.03x of the required memory Civilization advances through different minds specializing and working together. We’re bringing that principle into AI @BanburyRoadAI, we’re scaling intelligence by model count, toward civilizations of models that learn to build on one another

final week to apply to Speedrun Alpha fellowship! up to $250k investment in technical students + recent grads who want to build. apps close this sunday. 👀 👀 👀 apply: alpha.a16z.com details below 👇 – alpha is our fellowship for technical students and recent grads who want to start building. we have two tracks: for future founders: - up to $250K investment - $1M+ in credits across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and more - office hours and fireside chats with speedrun partners - 8 weeks in person in SF (jan 11 – mar 5) if you'd rather get experience before starting a company, apply to our talent track: - intros to speedrun portfolio companies to find your mutual fit - office hours and fireside chats with speedrun partners - 4 weeks in person in SF (feb 8 – mar 5)

We raised $11.7M to bring AGI to enterprise. Every enterprise has spent decades building up knowledge. Some of it lives in Salesforce, SharePoint, Outlook, spreadsheets, PDFs, maps and databases. But a huge amount of it just lives in people's heads. Your best salesperson knows when they can push on price. Your COO remembers why you made a decision three years ago. Someone on your team can look at a number and immediately say, "That doesn't look right." Software has the data, and people know what to do with it. I think that line is about to disappear. Kanu understands your company well enough to know what has happened before, how your team thinks, what is changing right now, and what might be worth doing next. Not because you sat down and programmed all of it. Because Kanu learned by working alongside your team. Imagine Daniel joins your company tomorrow. He's working on his first deal and Kanu tells him: "This customer has historically been pretty flexible on price. I'd start higher on the first offer. Here's what happened the last few times." Daniel never searched for that. He didn't even know there was something to search for. Kanu just knew it would be useful. That's the part I'm most excited about. When someone on your team corrects Kanu, it learns. When something changes in the market, it notices. When one person figures out a better way to do something, everyone else should be able to benefit from it. And none of this should require your employees to become AI experts. They shouldn't have to spend their day building agents, writing skills or figuring out which model to use. Your company shouldn't have to learn how to use AI. AI should learn how your company works. We're already seeing the beginning of this. For one national customer, work that used to take weeks now takes minutes. Our $11.7M seed round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, with participation from a16z @speedrun, BMW i Ventures, @Accel and more. A huge thank you to our team, customers, investors and everyone who believed in us early. I couldn't be more excited about what comes next.

I tore my ACL and now need surgery. I spent the day using Muse to plan for my upcoming rehab and it was surprisingly delightful It ingested all the documentation from my surgeon and sports specialist, processed a bunch of rehab literature, and built me a custom plan for pre-surgery and the long rehab months after. It did research and bought me a stationary bike. It converted all my PT lifts/stretches/work into matching exercises on my @tonal and created custom workouts in the app My knee is shot but honestly my mood is not bad knowing I've got a good plan ahead of me

I'm not here to defend Polymarket, but it's worth noting that the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul received MILLIONS in campaign donations from traditional casino and gambling operators. Attorney Generals have basically lost all respect for protecting the rule of law and instead just focus on selective enforce at the behest of their bosses.

STUDENTS + NEW GRADS: We want to invest up to $250K in you! Applications are officially OPEN for speedrun Alpha Cohort 2. After our inaugural cohort this summer, we're excited to bring the fellowship back with two tracks: Founder: Get up to $250K to start your company, plus $1M+ in credits from AI, cloud, and devtool partners and more Talent: Get fast-tracked toward engineering opportunities at breakout startups Both: In-person fellowship in SF with a kickoff retreat, weekly office hours with the speedrun team, coworking at the speedrun office, intimate fireside chats, and one-on-one support We’re looking to take bets on technical students, recent grads, and dropouts who are serious about building. You can be pre-idea, pre-team, or already underway. At this stage, what matters most is that you’ve shown you can ship and are deeply committed to this path. More than 11,000 people applied to our first cohort, and we ultimately selected 11 teams. We’re excited to meet the next group! Apply now: alpha.a16z.com Nominate or tag anyone you think we should consider👇

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is increasingly deploying “lurker drones” designed to land and conceal themselves near roads on the frontlines before ambushing passing vehicles. The drones can remain dormant for hours, using onboard microphones to detect approaching vehicles before activating, taking off, and striking the target.

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN. Kushner and Iger were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year.