From hand-drawn sketches and scrapped prototypes to powerful AI-driven simulations at lightning speed, hardware product development has come a long way. As former hardware engineers ourselves, we know firsthand the grueling processes that have historically stymied innovation. Today, we’re betting…
For decades, robotics has captured the imagination of innovators and technologists alike. From Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Baymax in Big Hero 6, robots have symbolized the future of technology—a cutting-edge vision of what’s possible. Despite their…
We’re excited about our Series B investment in Klarity, the leading document automation platform for finance and accounting organizations. Financial document automation is a market primed for AI innovation. In today's digital age, software has proliferated across industries, yet numerous…
Over the past 2 years, AI has seen ideas move from research to industry implementation at a record breaking pace. This phenomenon continues to motivate our ongoing event series, New Ideas in AI, which brings together today’s most relevant…
Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Tavus. The company is a leader in productizing the latest research in AI video generation – and applying this to enable customers to speak directly to each and every end-user…
Right place, right time Since a16z partners Katherine Boyle’s category-defining blog post Building American Dynamism was released early last year, the defense tech space has seen an influx of new venture capital interest, particularly from Silicon Valley investors. However, there’s…
Large language models are poised to have an immediate effect on how businesses use software. While the exact scale and impact of AI is not a topic we aim to wrestle with here, the intuitive applicability of this technology across…
The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry to discuss applications of chain-of-thought prompting with Jason Wei, a researcher at OpenAI. Jason’s…
