Summary
The Machine Age Fund will invest across chips, memory, networking, power, cooling, data centres, edge devices and robots. The fund reflects a16z’s view that AI expansion increasingly depends on physical infrastructure beyond software and model development.
Why it matters
The fund concentrates substantial venture capital on the bottlenecks that now determine how quickly AI capacity and embodied systems can scale.
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