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Estimated from 25 chart positions in 25 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · Technology#8030K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Technology#1015K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Technology#1875K to 30K
- 🇰🇷KR · Technology#2730K to 100K
- 🇧🇷BR · Technology#5910K to 30K
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71K to 250K🎙 ~2x weekly·92 episodes·Last published 3w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
141K to 500K🇬🇧20%🇰🇷20%🇺🇸6%+22 more - Active Followers
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42K to 150K
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How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity | Truffle Security & Socket
Aug 7, 2026
Unknown duration
Inside vLLM: The Engine Powering Open-Source AI
Aug 6, 2026
Unknown duration
Building Self-Accelerating AI with Mirendil
Jun 24, 2026
40m 38s
Ideogram’s Open-Weights Image Model and the Future of AI Design
Jun 15, 2026
42m 56s
Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk
Jun 4, 2026
49m 44s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/7/26 | How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity | Truffle Security & Socket | Joel De La Garza is joined by Dylan Ayrey, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Security, and Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, to discuss one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity: AI models are no longer just finding vulnerabilities—they're exploiting them. As frontier models become increasingly capable of hacking, software security, supply chain attacks, and cyber defense are entering a fundamentally new era. The conversation explores AI-powered hacking, software supply chain attacks, leaked credentials, zero-day vulnerabilities, package manager security, and why the path of least resistance for increasingly autonomous AI systems may also be the most dangerous. They also discuss what enterprises, developers, and the open-source ecosystem need to do to adapt as the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation continues to shrink. | — | ||||||
| 8/6/26 | Inside vLLM: The Engine Powering Open-Source AI | Elena Burger and Matt Bornstein are joined by Simon Mo, co-founder and CEO of Inferact, the open-source inference engine powering many of today's most advanced AI applications. Together, they explore how open-source AI evolved from a research project into critical infrastructure, why inference has become one of the most important layers of the AI stack, and what it takes to bring frontier intelligence to developers around the world. The conversation covers vLLM's origins, the rise of open-weight models, why companies increasingly want control over their AI infrastructure, and how open-source inference enables the next generation of AI applications. They also discuss model licensing, the economics of open-weight AI, Kimi K3, distillation, AI infrastructure, and why Simon believes the gap between open and closed models is rapidly disappearing. | — | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | self-accelerating AIAI research+3 | Behnam NeyshaburHarsh Mehta | GoogleAnthropic+1 | — | self-accelerating AIAI systems+5 | — | 40m 38s | ||
| 6/15/26 | image generationAI design+4 | Mohammad Norouzi | Ideogram | — | image generation modelsAI and creativity+5 | — | 42m 56s | ||
| 6/4/26 | AI agentssearch infrastructure+3 | Will Bryk | Exa | — | AIsearch engines+5 | — | 49m 44s | ||
| 6/2/26 | data infrastructureAI+5 | George Fraser | Fivetrandbt | — | AI agentscustomer data+6 | — | 50m 46s | ||
| 5/19/26 | AI infrastructuresoftware competition+3 | Ben Horowitz | a16z | Deer Valley | AIsoftware+4 | — | 29m 43s | ||
| 5/12/26 | AI infrastructureAI-native systems+4 | Jennifer Li | a16zElevenLabs+1 | — | AIinfrastructure+5 | — | 38m 41s | ||
| 5/5/26 | vector databasesknowledge engines+4 | Ash Ashutosh | NexusPinecone | — | vector databasesknowledge engines+5 | — | 46m 28s | ||
| 4/28/26 | AI systemscontinual learning+3 | Malika Aubakirova | a16z | — | AIcontinual learning+3 | — | 18m 38s | ||
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| 4/21/26 | enterprise softwarecoding agents+4 | Aaron Levie | Box | — | enterprise softwareagents+5 | — | 59m 37s | ||
| 4/8/26 | version controlAI agents+3 | Scott Chacon | GitHubGitButler | — | GitGitHub+5 | — | 47m 05s | ||
| 4/1/26 | AIIT services+3 | Peter Doyle | Treeline | — | AIIT services+5 | — | 34m 28s | ||
| 3/24/26 | StripeAPI design+4 | Patrick Collison | SmalltalkLisp+5 | — | StripeAPI design+5 | — | 52m 53s | ||
| 3/19/26 | AI agentsidentity+4 | Yoko LiGuido Appenzeller+1 | OpenClawGmail+2 | — | OpenClawAI assistant+5 | — | 47m 10s | ||
| 3/17/26 | LLMsAGI+4 | Vishal Misra | — | — | LLMsAGI+5 | — | 47m 35s | ||
| 3/10/26 | AIsoftware development+4 | Amjad Masad | Replit | — | AIReplit+6 | — | 1h 39m 18s | ||
| 3/3/26 | venture capitalAI infrastructure+3 | Martin Casado | a16z | — | venture capitalAI+4 | — | 53m 28s | ||
| 2/24/26 | AI investment cycleventure capital+4 | Martin CasadoSarah Wang | a16zLatent Space | — | AIventure capital+5 | — | 57m 52s | ||
| 2/19/26 | durable executionAI agents+4 | Samar Abbas | CodexStory+3 | — | durable executionAI infrastructure+5 | — | 1h 03m 46s | ||
| 2/17/26 | Evals, Feedback Loops, and the Engineering That Makes AI Work | Martin Casado speaks with Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Braintrust, about where engineering actually matters in AI and where it doesn't. They cover the open source vs closed source model cycle, why Chinese models are gaining ground faster than spending suggests, whether AI demand will eventually saturate, and the Bash vs SQL benchmark that challenges the "just give it a computer" approach to agents. | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire | Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets, why they released Sora, how they use models internally, the best AI evals, and where we’re going from here. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Why This Isn't the Dot-Com Bubble | Martin Casado on WSJ's BOLD NAMES | Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal sit down with a16z General Partner Martin Casado on WSJ’s Bold Names to ask whether the AI spending boom is a bubble waiting to burst. Martin explains why the fundamentals differ dramatically from the dot-com era—when WorldCom had $40 billion in debt versus today's tech giants with hundreds of billions on their balance sheets—and why a speculative valuation correction shouldn't be confused with systemic collapse. They also discuss where a16z sees opportunity in the "long tail" of AI companies beyond the state-of-the-art large language models. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | Martin Casado on the Demand Forces Behind AI | In this feed drop from The Six Five Pod, a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how AI is changing infrastructure, software, and enterprise purchasing. He explains why current constraints are driven less by technical limits and more by regulation, particularly around power, data centers, and compute expansion. The episode also covers how AI is affecting software development, lowering the barrier to coding without eliminating the need for experienced engineers, and how agent-driven tools may shift infrastructure decision-making away from humans. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | How Mintlify Is Rebuilding Documentation for Coding Agents | Mintlify is a documentation platform built by cofounders Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee to help teams create and maintain developer docs. In this episode, Andreessen Horowitz general partners Jennifer Li and Yoko Li speak with Han and Hahnbee about how coding agents are changing what “good docs” mean, shifting documentation from a human-only resource into infrastructure that powers AI tools, support agents, and internal knowledge workflows. They share Mintlify’s early journey, including eight pivots, the two-day prototype that landed their first customer, and the “do things that don’t scale” sales motion that helped them win early traction. The conversation also covers why docs go out of date, what “self-healing” documentation requires to actually work, and how serving fast-moving customers has shaped both their product priorities and their pace. | — | ||||||
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Chart history for AI + a16z
Peaked at #27 in South Korea, currently #27 in South Korea.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| South Korea | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| NG | — | #29 | #29 | — |
| TH | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| SA | — | #40 | #40 | — |
| ID | — | #53 | #53 | — |
| TR | — | #55 | #55 | — |
| Brazil | — | #59 | #59 | — |
| Finland | — | #62 | #62 | — |
| IL | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| India | — | #76 | #76 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #80 | #80 | — |
| PH | — | #84 | #84 | — |
| United States | — | #101 | #101 | — |
| VN | — | #112 | #112 | — |
| Denmark | — | #124 | #124 | — |
| SG | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| PT | — | #167 | #167 | — |
| CZ | — | #169 | #169 | — |
| France | — | #178 | #178 | — |
| Ireland | — | #179 | #179 | — |
Chart Positions
25 placements across 25 markets.
Chart Positions
25 placements across 25 markets.