Andreessen Horowitz

2026-10-09

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

TypeSafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B valuation for non-text model Jev weeks after launch

TypeSafe AI said it raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation for Jev, a transformer-based model that outputs probabilities rather than text, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with Sequoia and DCVC participating. Jev launched on Sept. 15 and the company says a third of Fortune 500 companies are already using it and that it runs faster and uses fewer tokens than LLMs, claims the startup has made about the product.

8.0

2026-09-30

MONEY · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Consumer AI adoption and spending remain low despite new assistants

Despite recent consumer-facing launches like Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and startups such as Instinct, Andreessen Horowitz’s semiannual State of Markets report (citing PNC) shows only ~2.2% of consumers paying for AI at an average of about $31/month; Bank of America data gives a similar low-adoption picture. The article argues that high operating costs for advanced models are capping consumer monetization, pushing major labs toward enterprise and vertical strategies.

6.5

2026-09-22

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · The Verge AI

Andreessen Horowitz to launch Horowitz Andreessen Academy with major tech partners

Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a one-year, highly selective program that will not grant degrees but offers short classes from tech leaders (including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman), co-op placements at partner companies, and more than $50,000 in compute credits. The academy launches with $42 million in funding led by a16z, 10 announced partners (Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, Stripe), will admit about 50 students for a free inaugural fall 2027 cohort, and requires participants to relocate to San Francisco.

6.0

2026-09-19

STARTUPS · 1 SOURCE · TechCrunch AI

Vals raises $40M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to build proprietary AI benchmarks

Vals, a 2024-founded startup that provides paid, non-public, industry-specific AI evaluations, raised $40 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz after a seed round backed by 8VC and Bloomberg Beta. The company tests models on complex domain tasks (law, finance, coding) and emerging areas such as recursive self-improvement, mental health, cybersecurity, biosecurity and law of armed conflict; revenue and headcount have grown rapidly and it has launched a program for federal agencies.

7.0

2026-09-18

MONEY · 1 SOURCE · WIRED AI

AI-linked super PACs have spent nearly $1M backing Sen. Mike Rounds in South Dakota

Major super PACs tied to AI investors and labs — including funds connected to Andreessen Horowitz, Anthropic and donors linked to OpenAI president Greg Brockman — have poured roughly $1 million into incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, according to FEC filings and reporting. The spending comes as AI regulation and data-center policy become prominent issues for Congress and state legislatures.

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