Anish Acharya

“commodity hardware getting more expensive, not less, is a powerful indicator of demand vastly outpacing supply. Things like B200, which is a non-cutting-edge GPU, prices going up on a per-hour basis.”

“When you put AI in the hands of a master craftsman from one domain and let them expand to a new domain, it raises the bar on what they can create because you're no longer trapped by the expert of that prior domain...”

“Products with small but still compelling markets — the million-dollar TAM products, the $100,000 TAM products — because they were economically infeasible before... a digital main street that can support a product that may have smaller scale, but be more opinionated.”

“We've spent 40 years building technology that really extended our intellect... And now we have this technology that can actually connect with humans on an emotional level.”

“Anthropic released a model called Opus 4-6 in December, which is a very, very powerful coding model. This is sort of what drove some of the psychosis I mentioned, people feeling like they've seen God in this new model.”

“What struck me about The Pitch was the depth of global talent in the room. Rigorous selection at this scale is rare, & the founders on that stage had so many of the qualities we look for at seed. We're excited to keep the conversations going.”

“Participants: Anish Acharya (a16z), Olivia Moore (a16z), Pablo Palafox (Happy Robot co-founder), Luis Paarup (Happy Robot co-founder)”