jev isn't production ready. today @modaicdev is launching Mo, the first multimodal decision model that learns from its mistakes. most production tasks involve subjective decision-making, where the last mile of calibration and alignment has always fallen on the developer. Mo closes that gap on its own. it refines its instructions and weights from the signals already in your workflow to learn what a good decision means for you. use Mo for the decisions where alpha matters the most like LLM judging, lead scoring and qualification, content moderation, resume screening, and more. if you're already using another decision model like jev, plug it into Modaic and it becomes self-improving too :) 🐙 modaic.dev docs.modaic.dev

Voice AI is getting the words right, but it still doesn't understand tone. We paused our PhDs at Stanford to build @OrukLabs, backed by a16z @speedrun. We train speech models to understand what you say AND how you say it. DM me for preview access to our most powerful model yet

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/

Introducing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

The home doesn’t belong to one person. Neither should its assistant. Meet Orbits.

Introducing Codos: The first virtual Chief AI Officer. AI is crushing all benchmarks but real companies still struggle to see P&L impact. Codos interviews employees, deploys automations across all functions and gets smarter over time while running on your own servers. Our NASDAQ-listed and PE-backed customers are adding millions to their bottom line months ahead of schedule and we are proud of the first results we deliver. It’s time to turn the 500BN AI-transformation market into software and unlock the impact for the real economy.

In our 19 minute talk with @nicckopp, CEO & Founder of @RilletHQ, he discusses why PMF is everything, how to build the right team, and what investors look for in founders. Enjoy! Timestamps: 00:00 - Why build an ERP when others failed? 03:28 - How did Nicolas know he had product market fit? 05:15 - Building an ERP: Wedge vs. Platform 08:23 - Hiring and building the right team 12:13 - The "Secret Weapon" Hires 13:41 - What investors look for in founders

Today we’re launching Keythorn. AI isn’t just thinking anymore. It’s moving money, talking to customers, and taking action. Every new agent brings new risk. The future runs on AI. We’re building the insurance for it. Meet @TryKeythorn ↓

Introducing @getclusterai: GTM infrastructure for your agents. We're helping the top 1% of AI-native teams turn Claude & Codex into demo-booking machines. Multi-channel outreach, signals, and enrichments in one platform for you and your agents. We've spent the last month onboarding startups and founders from @speedrun , @ycombinator, and more, to get them dozens of conversations with high intent leads. Hmu if you want access.

Claude & Codex can now book you demos with your next 10 customers. Introducing Cluster: GTM infrastructure for your agents. Our agent is sending a free cupcake to 50 people from the comments. Comment below to enter!

We jumped out of a plane to launch Zorbe. Because the future needs you to own yourselves. Zorbe builds specialized AI models that companies own, and keeps them state of the art over time. We're the first company with multimodal operations, making models smaller, cheaper, faster and smarter across language, speech, vision, image and video. We've worked with companies from Seed to Series D, and we're the only company to have delivered a distilled video model running in production for a customer. Own Your Models. Own Your Moat.

Congrats to @walden_yan and @cognition on the raise with @a16z + Thank you for coming and spending time with the speedrun founders last week! 🦦

Applications just opened for The Alpha Fellowship cohort 002! 😎

the @a16z and @speedrun team and founders are hosting events every day for SF and LA Tech Week! 💙 Companies hosting include @ElevenLabs, @FireworksAI_HQ, @vercel, @stripe and more.

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👇

I co-lead @speedrun alpha w/ @KatiaAmeri - we're opening apps for A002 today. > We invest up to $250k > We focus on dropouts / recent grads > Our thesis: "invest in amazing people" Application link is in the comments. Tag the folks we should be talking to.

BREAKING NEWS: SF and LA Tech Week calendars are LIVE! You can now register for events: tech-week.com/calendar 2,300+ event submissions across San Francisco and Los Angeles 📍SF: October 5-11 📍LA: October 12-18 People always ask about the data, so a few stats: -SF once again takes the crown for “biggest tech week ever” with 1,500+ events -1 in 7 SF events is about agentic AI: 213 events in SF and 53 in LA are explicitly about agents (in the title or description). In 2024 there were only about a dozen! -There are 124 hackathons across the two weeks, and the variety is huge: everything from hardware to defense, media/creative, fintech, civic/social good, etc. Everyone is a builder now. - LA, the OG Tech Week (now in its fifth year!), has seriously doubled down on deep tech with 100+ events and lots of El Segundo activity. Last year, Tech Week saw attendees from over 100 countries. It’s going to be a party. See you there! 🥳

The official SF + LA Tech Week Calendar is LIVE! Over 2,300 events, most free to attend. Apply now before they fill up! tech-week.com/calendar

I’m 18 And Zorbe is now backed by @speedrun Custom models for repetitive workloads across all modalities Text. Video. Image. Vision. Speech. Cheaper, faster, smarter, yours @yash_iyer21 and I are grateful to @far33d and @Tocelot for their confidence in us! Let's talk!