a16z puts $1.1B behind AI's physical bottlenecks
Ben Horowitz and four fellow investors presented the fund, while a16z separately named Guido Appenzeller, Shangda Xu and Erin Price-Wright among its hardware specialists.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
Why it matters
AI's infrastructure shortage is creating a founder market around power, chips, cooling, networking and robotics. A16z is reserving $1.1B to compete for it.
a16z, presented by cofounder Ben Horowitz and four other investors, launched the Machine Age Fund on August 28th, saying it raised $1.1 billion to back the chips, memory, networking, power systems, data centers and robots required to keep AI scaling.…