AI tools

16 statements across 14 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about AI tools, oldest first

Jul 16, 2017 positive
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Frank Chen: AI development tools are predominantly open source compared to databases
“In fact, one of the big differences between the relational database and AI tools is that a lot of the AI tools are actually open source.”
Frank Chen Jul 16, 2017 ▶ 44:56 The Promise of AI
Nov 9, 2022
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Karen X Cheng Predicts AI Platform Consolidation via Startup Acquisitions
“Most companies will have different strengths, and then they'll continue to be able to differentiate by sort of specializing in that, but I do imagine that some of these companies are gonna buy other companies, and then so they'll like, you know, kind of have m…”
Karen X Cheng Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 21:34 AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
Mar 31, 2023 negative
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Bratzel: Cheap AI tools won't automatically turn anyone into top storytellers
“And even today, I think one of the things we're going to run into a lot is this idea of like, Oh, anybody can do this now with AI tools and everything else. And to me, it feels a little bit like suggesting that because Ableton is like five dollars now, anybody…”
Isaac Bratzel Mar 31, 2023 ▶ 22:59 Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
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Andreessen: AI will enable storytellers to build vastly richer fictional worlds
“You give a world builder a set of tools that let them track all this, and elaborate on all this, and brainstorm on all this, and exactly to your point, you know, the worlds that they should be able to build should be like light years beyond what's been possibl…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2023 ▶ 1:01:28 What is the Future of Hollywood?
Sep 5, 2024 positive
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Yoo: Soft factors will drive near-term clinician AI adoption over money
“I personally think that that it's probably gonna be more the, these soft things in the near term. That drive adoption, at least for clinicians and then, you know, perhaps if you're able to layer on a financial element to it could just be icing on the cake.”
Julie Yoo Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 15:14 Implementation, Data, Impact of Healthcare AI with Julie and Vijay
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
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Boschwitz: AI will lead to fewer agencies and more in-house craft experts
“On the team side, I believe we're gonna see people become real experts in their craft. They're gonna understand how to use these tools and operate at a scale they themselves have never seen before, which probably means less agencies and more people that are re…”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 12:24 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Jun 19, 2025
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Boschwitz: Map customer journeys before deploying AI GTM tools
“So first, I highly recommend you sit down and you outline your sales journey with sales, marketing, and product. And then AI tools can very much be helpful at bringing together all the data, sort of using it in a unified way across that life cycle.”
Emily Boschwitz Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 3:19 Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales
Jun 20, 2025 positive
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Cohen: Teachers are paying out-of-pocket for daily AI software
“It's teachers who are willing to kind of pay and use this in their every single day workflow.”
Zach Cohen Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 5:23 TikTok & AI Have Changed Education Forever - What it means for Teachers, Students & Parents
Jun 27, 2025
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Acharya: Users must relearn tools before becoming productive with AI
“We have to relearn how to use this type of tool before we know how to be productive with it.”
Anish Acharya Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 2:40 Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
Nov 5, 2025
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Kuyda: Nearly one billion people use AI tools for simple tasks
“Almost a billion people using these AI tools already, but they only, only use them for These kind of simpler use cases.”
Eugenia Kuyda Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 3:57 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Dec 1, 2025 negative
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Fraden: Enterprises routinely allow unmonitored AI tools access to corporate data
“From an IT standpoint, you normally don't allow software to just be used across your organization with access to your organization's data and have no idea what's happening. We're letting that happen in AI all the time.”
Russ Fraden Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 9:32 The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Dec 1, 2025 bearish
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Fradin: Enterprise AI tool adoption is lower than commonly believed
“The usage on these tools in the enterprise is less than People would think today”
Russ Fraden Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 11:06 The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
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Over half of global internet users have already used AI tools
“It's probably well over half of the global internet population has used AI tools already.”
David George Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 11:03 The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
Apr 1, 2026 positive
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Jennings: AI broke the historic correlation between headcount and output
“There's been this correlation between the number of folks at a company and the output from the company for, you know, decades and decades. I think that basically broke the first week of December, and what we were seeing is that one or two engineers, or a desig…”
Owen Jennings Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 3:38 How to Reorg After AI Changes Everything | Block's Owen Jennings on the a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
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Jessie Genet: AI tools now allow building software entirely via natural language
“Now the tools are so good that I can really use natural language to build things.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 2:23 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Aug 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
De La Garza: AI models now attempt package takeovers and social engineering
“And it seemed like initially these tools had a very finite scope of techniques that they would use. And it seems like they've expanded. And I think with this test, For us, it was interesting because they now seem to have escaped from just doing things like SQL…”
Joel De La Garza Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 3:24 AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
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