Build Your Startup With AI

The podcast explores the current state of AI in April 2024, focusing on its intersection with company building. It addresses how startups can compete with established AI players, especially considering the anticipated exponential improvements in base models. The discussion covers the potential for AI "God models" to improve significantly, possibly by a factor of 100, and what that means for startups. Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen debate whether AI will reach a point of artificial general intelligence or remain limited by human-structured data. They also discuss the value of proprietary data for companies using AI, weighing its importance against the vast amount of data available on the internet. The conversation touches on the potential for an AI-driven boom-bust cycle, similar to the internet era, and the importance of maintaining an open AI ecosystem.