$1,100,000,000. The Machine Age Fund | a16z
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Isaac Newton spent 20 years looking for
this key to what he called alchemy. The
idea of alchemy was to transmute
something that was very common into
something that was very rare. There was
this thing called the philosopher's
stone that he kept trying to discover.
Imagine a form of alchemy that turns
sand
into thought. And so AI quite literally
is that. It's it's thought at scale for
everybody
in perpetuity.
>> So now almost everything is a
bottleneck. Like America's got to
rebuild its entire [music]
infrastructure like right now.
>> The whole supply chain is just
>> feeling immense pressure.
>> The bottom line is this is a very unique
moment in time. The entire computer
[music] ecosystem is being rebooted for
AI.
>> Yeah, these data centers were built for
SAS. And so you really have to be cool
and all
>> The United States is short [music]
power, short compute, short chips, and
there's going to be shortages in all
three.
>> We don't have enough anything to be in
this future world and somebody's got to
fund it.
>> [music]
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The video discusses the transformative power of AI, comparing it to the historical pursuit of alchemy, while highlighting the current critical shortages in infrastructure, power, and computing capacity necessary to support this technological shift.
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