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Why a16z Launched the Machine Age Fund | Jen Kha

aired Aug 30, 2026 · 24.0m
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Summary

South Korea, by the way, just announced that they're giving premium AI to every citizen as sort of a public utility thing. But by the way, it's not just them.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of know, like, data, including: So very, very topical.

Key takeaways
  1. 01We might also see the influx of a lot of this data center supply chain build up happen overseas because of this sentiment in the U.S
  2. 02GenCob, managing partner and head of global partnerships at E16Z, joins Theo Jaffe and Sophia Du on NTS to discuss E16Z's machine age fund
  3. 03They get into why the existing stack wasn't designed for today's AI workloads, what needs to change across chips, networking, memory, cooling, and data centers, and why hardware ha
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