We raised $11.7M to bring AGI to enterprise. Every enterprise has spent decades building up knowledge. Some of it lives in Salesforce, SharePoint, Outlook, spreadsheets, PDFs, maps and databases. But a huge amount of it just lives in people's heads. Your best salesperson knows when they can push on price. Your COO remembers why you made a decision three years ago. Someone on your team can look at a number and immediately say, "That doesn't look right." Software has the data, and people know what to do with it. I think that line is about to disappear. Kanu understands your company well enough to know what has happened before, how your team thinks, what is changing right now, and what might be worth doing next. Not because you sat down and programmed all of it. Because Kanu learned by working alongside your team. Imagine Daniel joins your company tomorrow. He's working on his first deal and Kanu tells him: "This customer has historically been pretty flexible on price. I'd start higher on the first offer. Here's what happened the last few times." Daniel never searched for that. He didn't even know there was something to search for. Kanu just knew it would be useful. That's the part I'm most excited about. When someone on your team corrects Kanu, it learns. When something changes in the market, it notices. When one person figures out a better way to do something, everyone else should be able to benefit from it. And none of this should require your employees to become AI experts. They shouldn't have to spend their day building agents, writing skills or figuring out which model to use. Your company shouldn't have to learn how to use AI. AI should learn how your company works. We're already seeing the beginning of this. For one national customer, work that used to take weeks now takes minutes. Our $11.7M seed round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, with participation from a16z @speedrun, BMW i Ventures, @Accel and more. A huge thank you to our team, customers, investors and everyone who believed in us early. I couldn't be more excited about what comes next.

I tore my ACL and now need surgery. I spent the day using Muse to plan for my upcoming rehab and it was surprisingly delightful It ingested all the documentation from my surgeon and sports specialist, processed a bunch of rehab literature, and built me a custom plan for pre-surgery and the long rehab months after. It did research and bought me a stationary bike. It converted all my PT lifts/stretches/work into matching exercises on my @tonal and created custom workouts in the app My knee is shot but honestly my mood is not bad knowing I've got a good plan ahead of me

I'm not here to defend Polymarket, but it's worth noting that the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul received MILLIONS in campaign donations from traditional casino and gambling operators. Attorney Generals have basically lost all respect for protecting the rule of law and instead just focus on selective enforce at the behest of their bosses.

STUDENTS + NEW GRADS: We want to invest up to $250K in you! Applications are officially OPEN for speedrun Alpha Cohort 2. After our inaugural cohort this summer, we're excited to bring the fellowship back with two tracks: Founder: Get up to $250K to start your company, plus $1M+ in credits from AI, cloud, and devtool partners and more Talent: Get fast-tracked toward engineering opportunities at breakout startups Both: In-person fellowship in SF with a kickoff retreat, weekly office hours with the speedrun team, coworking at the speedrun office, intimate fireside chats, and one-on-one support We’re looking to take bets on technical students, recent grads, and dropouts who are serious about building. You can be pre-idea, pre-team, or already underway. At this stage, what matters most is that you’ve shown you can ship and are deeply committed to this path. More than 11,000 people applied to our first cohort, and we ultimately selected 11 teams. We’re excited to meet the next group! Apply now: alpha.a16z.com Nominate or tag anyone you think we should consider👇

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is increasingly deploying “lurker drones” designed to land and conceal themselves near roads on the frontlines before ambushing passing vehicles. The drones can remain dormant for hours, using onboard microphones to detect approaching vehicles before activating, taking off, and striking the target.

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN. Kushner and Iger were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year.

Introducing Alpha (A001) - 13 fellows who spent the last 8 weeks building their companies with us in SF. This is our earliest-stage program for students, dropouts, and recent grads with the conviction to run straight into building a startup. Most started Alpha as solo founders, still figuring out what exactly to build. Within 8 weeks, they went all in on building, talking to customers, growing their teams, and even getting their first revenue through the door. Meet our founders ↓

i’m reliability informed that openai realised they fell behind on pre training so cut sora and much more. this was facilitate training three models at 5, 10, and 15t spud / doug / dougtrio you couldn’t make this stuff up…

Day 12 of 60 to hit $1m run rate by a16z @speedrun demo day. We doubled our DAU overnight… When our MCP launched our posts reached millions of views. But the spike was temporary. We had steady growth thanks to evergreen content (blogs, SEO, GEO) but we knew we could grow more. So we decided to try something. During MCP install, we asked installing agents to use Lazyweb by default for relevant product decisions. Think of this like a “default web browser” but for coding agent decisions. It worked immediately. We doubled DAU and haven’t stopped growing since. This wasn’t the only thing we tried. 9 of 10 ideas failed. But not this one. Sometimes all it takes to grow is trying 10 things and seeing what sticks. You’ll never know till you try.

I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs. My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved. Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal. You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games. Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don’t know. The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.