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A Functional Taxonomy of World Models
Renderers, Simulators, Planners, and the Loop That Connects Them
 • Fei-Fei Li
Small Businesses are the Next Frontier for AI
Why agents haven't made it to Main Street (and how we get this done)
 • Steijn Pelle
The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code
Visual AI is moving from outputs to code artifacts
 • Yoko Li
Introducing the a16z FDE Fellowship
A new 8-week cohort of FDEs at the forefront of how AI is deployed into enterprises.
 • Erik Torenberg, David Booth, and Katie Kirsch
Avoiding Death on the Yellow Brick Road
Why The App Layer Isn't Dead
 • Joe Schmidt IV
Everything, Everywhere is Compliance
Why AI's Biggest Enterprise Opportunity Is Also Its Most Boring
 • James da Costa and Angela Strange
Exa is Building the Search Engine for the AI Era
Your AI system should have truly comprehensive knowledge of the world, no matter how complex the request
 • Will Bryk
From “System of Record” to “System of Intelligence”
The reasoning layer that sits above the database, and that increasingly treats the database as infrastructure, is where a new generation of companies is…
 • Gio Ahern, Steph Zhang, and Alex Immerman
Is Software Losing Its Head?
Agents may kill muscle memory as a moat, but they do not kill operational logic and context as a moat.
 • Seema Amble
System Integration as Software
The technology to do this differently has only just arrived
 • Kabir Nagrecha
Workday's Last Workday?
HCM is the last large enterprise software category without a serious AI-native challenger, and that’s about to change
 • Joe Schmidt IV
Why We Need Continual Learning
The Memento and the Machine
 • Malika Aubakirova and Matt Bornstein
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