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Andreessen: Entire industries will be built adapting AI into messy real-world systems

Marc Andreessen · Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different" · Apr 3, 2026 · at 16:24

Marc Andreessen, cofounder of a16z, discusses whether application layer companies can survive continuous model upgrades.

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“There are going to be a lot of companies and a lot of products and in fact, entire industries that are going to get built to basically actually help all of this technology actually reach real people.”

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