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The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

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The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

The a16z Show

Jan 19
The a16z Show

The a16z Show

Jan 19
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The a16z AI Apps team outlines how they are thinking about the AI application cycle and why they believe it represents the largest and fastest product shift in software to date. The conversation places AI in the context of prior platform waves, from PCs to...

Highlights

This episode dives into how AI is reshaping software development, enterprise adoption, and venture investing—not as a speculative wave, but as the fastest, most consequential platform shift in software history.
04:53
Gen AI unlocks the ability to do less work for more economic value
11:14
The traditional per-seat-per-month business model for support software may become extinct
15:49
The EVE team recently launched a voice agent for evidence collection
23:07
The speed of software building increases the risk for existing products, which need unique competitive advantages like data
30:01
Vertical software companies can become very valuable by adding financial services and creating a sticky software platform
34:38
Vlex’s revenue quintupled after integrating AI into its legal-record aggregation service
49:22
Buying a company with declining revenue but blue-chip clients and transforming it with AI improves collections rates and competitiveness
54:00
Aggregators of models are preferred over single-model consumers, like in airlines
1:04:18
Winning ERP deals is a team sport, not attributable to specific GPs

Chapters

Why AI Is Accelerating Faster Than Any Platform Before It
00:00
How Incumbents and Startups Are Reshaping Software—Greenfield vs. Brownfield
08:55
What Makes an AI Company Defensible? Moats, Workflows, and Labor Replacement
13:27
Can AI Really Automate Legal Work? From Evidence Collection to Case Valuation
18:25
Augmentation Over Displacement: How AI Scales Human Output Without Mass Job Loss
25:32
Why Your Data Isn’t Just Fuel—It’s Your Unfair Advantage
32:23
Pricing Power in the AI Era: From Per-Seat to Value-Capture Models
46:42
How VC Firms Are Betting on AI—Not Just Models, But Categories and Content
54:00
What Does It Take to Win Big Deals? Team Execution, Ecosystems, and Conviction
1:04:18

Transcript

Alex Rampell: A lot of people think the AI story is about models. This episode argues the real story is about apps, distribution, and models. In this episode, we share an AI apps overview. Featuring A16Z general partners Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Anis...