A16z’s $2.2B reset and Subquadratic’s 1,000x AI efficiency bet
What Changed and Why It Matters Two signals flashed this week. A16z Crypto closed a new $2.2B fund, about half the size of its record $4.5B predecessor. On the same…
SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 27: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is displayed on an iPhone screen on January 27, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Newly launched Chinese AI app DeepSeek has surged to number one in Apple's App Store and has triggered a sell-off of U.S. tech stocks over concerns that Chinese companies' AI advances could threaten the bottom line of tech giants in the United States and Europe. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
DeepSeek’s efficiency play: when smarter code beats more GPUs
What Changed and Why It Matters DeepSeek showed that software can outpace scale. They trained on Nvidia’s export-limited H800s and leaned on low-level PTX, not CUDA. The result: high-end performance…