Marc Andreessen on Latent Space: The Death of the Browser and Why 'This Time Is Different'

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Marc Andreessen — inventor of the web browser — joined swyx and Alessio at a16z's Sand Hill Road office to argue AI is the payoff of an '80-year overnight success,' not another hype cycle. Fresh off raising a $15B fund, he traced the arc from neural nets and expert systems through transformers, reasoning models, and recursive self-improvement. His thesis: the real bottleneck isn't models but the messy institutions and incentive structures struggling to absorb technological change.