a16z to raise $1.1 billion in new funds to focus AI on full infrastructure development

On August 28th, a16z, a leading risk investment agency in Silicon Valley, announced that it had raised $1.1 billion for the latest fund, Machine Age Fund, to focus on investments to support the full computing infrastructure operated by AI, including chips, memory, networks, storage, and complete systems such as data centres, robots and family AI equipment. a16z indicates that over the past year there has been a marked turning point in AI ' s growth in applied capacity and type of work, and that as AI expands from chatting and reasoning to programming and so on, the demand for algorithms and Token is increasing exponentially, machine intelligence is accelerating to depth. a16z indicates that its team has deep hardware, data centres, chips, networks and large-scale computing system experience, while a resource network covering market expansion, talent recruitment, marketing, clients, suppliers and United States manufacturing has been established that will further support a new generation of AI hardware entrepreneurs. a16z states that it is now at an important point in calculating the paradigm change and looks forward to working with entrepreneurs who are committed to reconstructing AI hardware and driving the "mechanic age"。