POPA Recona16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Hardware Fund
a16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Hardware Fund Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $1.1B fund called Machine Age to invest in the hardware backbone of AI, from chips, memory, networking and storage to robotics. The fund is a bet that the hard constraint on AI is no longer just models and data but the physical supply chain underneath them, the compute, memory and networking that have become the industry's tightest bottleneck. It slots alongside a16z's other infrastructure and Oxygen compute initiatives aimed at securing hardware access for its portfolio companies. For crypto, the thesis rhymes wit…
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