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Max Pollard

ROLE FOUNDER/OPERATORMENTIONS 3LAST SEEN AUGUST 18, 2026
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product·The a16z Show·AUGUST 18, 2026

If I see machine speed on another billboard, I'm gonna lose it, which is really ironic coming from us because when we launched six, seven months ago, we had machine speed in our launch.

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mention·The a16z Show·AUGUST 18, 2026

The challenge with the existing security tools that are out there is they really were built to tackle two things. The first being people and the second is malware. And AI and AI agents and agentic processes are neither one of those things.

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mention·The a16z Show·AUGUST 18, 2026

For Hugging Face specifically, they had the luxury of having open weight and open source kind of in their DNA. And so they were able to, when they saw these cyber refusals or these guardrails being triggered, fall back to GLM-5-2 in their case.

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