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Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 28:25 Marc Andreessen Quinn is the model from Alibaba.
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 7:13 Olivia Moore So a couple companies that made the list are Quark, which is Alibaba's AI assistant on both web and mobile.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 32:06 Dylan Patel And you see that with, you know, whether it be what DeepSeq's doing or Alibaba's doing or what the labs are doing internally.
- ▶ 38:48 Dylan Patel We, what we see is that like, even with H-Twenty being sold to China, into China, um, and, and, and future versions of the chip, H-Twenty-E and other chips, um, we still see like Chinese companies like Alibaba, uh, renting GPUs outside of… 2 times in the scene
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 20:08 unnamed speaker Alibaba released one.
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 1:06:45 Marc Andreessen The, the story I heard is from highly placed people is he went in every spring and had tea with a senior CCP leadership for, you know, like, 20 years to talk about the, you know, the, you know, basically representing China on, on the… 4 times in the scene
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 15:37 Connie Chan You know, a lot of people, they had spent many years, um, perfecting their work at Tencent or Alibaba, and then they left to go do something else.
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 20:25 Jez Humble They're jumping straight from no technology to Alibaba and Tencent, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- ▶ 20:47 Sonal Chokshi Which is Alibaba's payments arm, right? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- ▶ 6:03 Graham Allison So if you look at Tencent, or at Alibaba, or at Baidu, or at Weibo, you see, I mean, actually, if you just compare in terms of market cap, what's happened in the last, in this year, Tencent and Alibaba are both up 45% just this year.
a16z Podcast | The Storage Renaissance
- ▶ 3:35 Haoyuan 'H.Y.' Li Several huge vendors in the world like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, uh, et cetera.
a16z Podcast | Politics Over Pragmatism -- On China, Trump, and Smart Guns?
- ▶ 21:48 Evan Osnos The possibility for a company like Alibaba, for instance, to come in and change things in the United States. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 4:16 Anu Hariharan You know, a very small percentage of organized retail and majority is unorganized, and Alibaba sort of did that with Taobao and Tmall, where they helped sort of, you know, I would, you know, people almost say, instead of going from…
- ▶ 20:22 Anu Hariharan You look at China, Alibaba is the market leader.
- ▶ 25:08 Kunal Bahl And so what we did with Free Charge is very similar to what Alibaba did with Alipay or, or eBay did with PayPal, where Snapdeal became the anchor merchant for Free Charge, which has a wallet,
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 9:07 Clay Shirky The real question is, and it's a question not just for Xiaomi, but for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, the big Chinese internet companies.
a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- ▶ 21:20 Mike Paulus I think another really interesting, um, company that's, that's flown under the radar a little bit is, is on on, and that's an insurance company backed by Alibaba and Tencent that's raised almost a billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 4:31 Connie Chan The same thing kind of played out in China, where Alibaba really understood what customers in China wanted. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Connie Chan Um, you have another dynamic where the big players, Tencent, Ali, Baba, and Baidu are all making large investments and acquisitions in the space, so there's a lot of capital coming from strategics. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:14 Connie Chan Yeah, well, I mean, in China, uh, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, um, but even companies like, like a Xiaomi or a Chihu are very active in areas that are outside of their core product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:42 Connie Chan I'd say the best students are still open to working at startups, just as they are working at an Alibaba or a Tencent or a Baidu. 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 33:36 Eileen Burbage Or Alibaba, I think, is like one of the biggest threats, not threats, but opportunities.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 7:10 Ilyas Khan Alibaba would be as if nothing compared to what will happen if Feynman's and other people's, um, aspirations are to be even remotely true. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 8:52 Chris Schroeder Uh, Alibaba in China, Baidu in China, Yemisepeki, which is the seamless of Turkey, MercadoLibre, which is the Amazon of Latin America.
- ▶ 28:52 Chris Schroeder But, but all of a sudden we're seeing, we saw it with Alibaba and we're seeing it more and more that companies and other countries are, are becoming very aggressive.
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
- ▶ 12:56 Chris Schroeder Like, 10 years ago, who would have said that Alibaba would be the most successful company
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 21:45 Ben Horowitz Alibaba is a monster, um, in a good way.
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 0:32 Connie Chan B stands for Baidu, A stands for Alibaba, and T stands for Tencent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 Connie Chan Um, Alibaba is also a cloud product that they have, as well as, uh, Alipay, which is somewhat similar to PayPal here in the States.
- ▶ 8:13 Connie Chan But that interest is coming from not just the major strategics like the Tencent, Alibaba, and the Chihus. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Chris Dixon Is it Alibaba?
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 28:43 unnamed speaker Uh, final one before the floor, uh, Amazon or Alibaba? 2 times in the scene
Online to Offline 2.0: Experiments and Examples from China
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 31:55 Terry Angelos One is the idea of verticalized commerce, and this is really an innovation that is coming out of, you know, Alibaba and Tencent, where you have a whole commerce ecosystem, and payments is just embedded as part of that, um, ecosystem.
Beyond a Zero-Sum Game: Tech Innovation and China
- ▶ 6:12 unnamed speaker Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group.
- ▶ 6:50 Connie Chan If I look at Alibaba Singles Day, last week they did an impressive twenty five billion dollars of GMV in sales in one day.
- ▶ 12:10 Connie Chan Last week at the Alibaba single celebration, I saw those performances, and I'd say over half of them were rap or hip hop related.
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China
- ▶ 4:10 Connie Chan The secret for so many Chinese apps that you hear about, the Tencent, the Alibaba, is sharing their user base and sharing their traffic to retain mindshare and relevance.
AI: What's Working, What's Not
- ▶ 0:34 Frank Chen In China, it's BAT, it's Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent.
- ▶ 22:11 Frank Chen Every app you use, everything that you buy in an Alibaba store, every store that you walk into, you're being analyzed by algorithms.
A Whirlwind Tour Through Tech Trends in China
- ▶ 12:48 Connie Chan And through that, of course, I have to talk about Alibaba. 2 times in the scene