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Matt Bornstein

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

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  • How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies

    August 27, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    a16z General Partners Martin Casado, Sarah Wang, and Matt Bornstein unpack the story of Cursor: how a small, product-obsessed team entered one of the most competitive markets in technology, took on incumbents with seemingly unbeatable advantages, and repeatedly made decisions that ran against conventional startup wisdom. They revisit the early bet that the interface between humans and AI would matter more than building a coding-specific foundation model, why Cursor built its own product rather than a VS Code plugin, and how the founders' ability to say "no" became one of the company's definin…

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  • How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z

    August 06, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    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…

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  • The Case for AI That Improves Itself | Deep Dives with a16z

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 a16z Deep Dives

    Matt Bornstein speaks with Mirendil cofounders Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta about their vision for building self-accelerating AI. After leading research efforts at Google and Anthropic, the founders started Mirendil around a simple question: what happens when AI systems can meaningfully contribute to their own development? Rather than focusing solely on AI as a tool for productivity, they argue that the most important application may be accelerating scientific and technological progress itself. The conversation explores AI research, scaling laws, automated engineering, scientific discove…

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  • a16z’s Matt Bornstein on How to Build an AI Science Startup

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 SAIR

    At the Science x AI Summit 2026 (Palo Alto), Matt Bornstein, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), shared insights on the challenges and strategies for building AI startups in the scientific domain. The Difficulty of AI Science Startups Building an AI science startup is exceptionally difficult because it combines two "hard" fields: AI and physical science. Unlike Large Language Models (LLMs), which model human expression, science models must model the physical world. Data Scarcity: Training data for science is expensive and difficult to generate, unlike the abundant data available fo…

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  • Building AI Systems You Can Trust

    May 23, 2025 · 📺 a16z

    In this episode of AI + a16z, Distributional cofounder and CEO Scott Clark, and a16z partner Matt Bornstein, explore why building trust in AI systems matters more than just optimizing performance metrics. From understanding the hidden complexities of generative AI behavior to addressing the challenges of reliability and consistency, they discuss how to confidently deploy AI in production. Why is trust becoming a critical factor in enterprise AI adoption? How do traditional performance metrics fail to capture crucial behavioral nuances in generative AI systems? Scott and Matt dive into these…

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  • Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development

    May 16, 2025 · 📺 a16z

    In this episode of the a16z AI podcast, a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li explore how generative AI is reshaping software development. From its potential as a new high-level programming abstraction to its current practical impacts, they discuss whether AI coding tools will redefine what it means to be a developer. Why has coding emerged as one of AI's most powerful use cases? How much can AI truly boost developer productivity, and will it fundamentally change traditional computer science education? Guido, Yoko, and Matt dive deep into these questions, addressi…

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  • What Is an AI Agent?

    May 02, 2025 · 📺 a16z

    In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z Infra partners Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, and Yoko Li discuss and debate one of the tech industry's buzziest words right now: AI agents. The trio digs into the topic from a number of angles, including: Whether a uniform definition of agent actually exists How to distinguish between agents, LLMs, and functions How to think about pricing agents Whether agents can actually replace humans, and The effects of data siloes on agents that can access the web. They don't claim to have all the answers, but they raise many questions and insights that should inte…

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