Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1 Billion Machine Age Fund to Back AI Hardware and Infrastructure
The venture firm said the fund will invest in chips, memory, data centers and robots as AI demand strains supply chains and power systems.
- On Friday, Andreessen Horowitz launched the $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund to invest in the physical infrastructure powering artificial intelligence, from chips to data centers and cooling systems.
- Hardware has been a difficult venture sell for two decades, but the firm's deal flow has shifted significantly, with hardware now accounting for more than 20% of its pipeline.
- The Machine Age initiative focuses on networking, cooling, and power distribution; five partners including Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado lead the fund.
- Compute density has risen 28-fold between Nvidia H100 and Rubin racks, while siting constraints now cause 63% of new capacity to go outside established hubs.
- Andreessen Horowitz calls AI the "strongest tool ever developed for solving problems and bestowing abundance," framing its advancement as a social imperative while betting on substations and thermal design.
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Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1 bn machine age fund to back AI hardware, infrastructure
New fund to invest across computer infrastructure underpinning AI, including chips, memory, networking and storage, as well as complete systems such as data centres, robotics and home AI appliances
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has raised $1.1 billion for its new "Machine Age Fund", as the venture capital firm looks to accelerate investment in the physical infrastructure required to support the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, has launched a hardware-dedicated investment fund for the first time in history...
a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips to the buildings that house them. The mandate takes in chips, memory, networking and storage, and then keeps going. Complete systems qualify too, defined broadly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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