@pbronner

Cofounder @ardent_vc, investing in b2b embedded finance, marketplaces, and vertical saas+. Father of 3, LUCKY husband, Wizards, and Commanders fanatic

Washington DC
Joined March 2009
phil bronner retweeted
Very obvious but now the average consumer will have the means to address it with a few keystrokes and a smart AI assistant. I wrote about the bigger topic surrounding this years ago in my thought piece “The Copernican Revolution In Banking” so maybe I should update it for the AI age.
Fascinating. Chief Economist at Apollo: agents could cause a bank run by sweeping household cash into accounts paying 3-5% instead of the 0.1% national average, causing banks to lose a large share of their cheap deposits.
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Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco: theacademysf.com/
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I cofounded a company that partnered with community colleges to offer premium 2 year experiences. The value proposition to something like this is very strong given college affordability. The issue, brand. @a16z’s brand in this space is strong enough to support something it. I Ike it. And it’s needed
Andreessen Horowitz has a message for up-and-coming tech talent: Don’t drop out of school to start a company; come do school with us instead. The venture-capital firm is investing $35 million in an unaccredited two-year alternative to traditional college. on.wsj.com/4rnuxci
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Someone needs to see this today.
sorry I didn't attend your event, i'm child time maxing.
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I paused on this one.
My lord, three IPOs are worth more than… all IPOs in the last 45 years of tech 🤯
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Agree: the political implications of wealth are underappreciated, as is the overall wealth concentration. A tremendous amount of money is being made right now, and the knowledge of that wealth accumulation is not evenly distributed.
The political implications of the coming AI IPOs are somehow still underappreciated Historically, each wave of wealth (railroads and steel, oil, finance, early tech, etc) was accompanied by a new class of people for whom politics was a way to compete for status and finance their convictions AI is likely to follow the same path. If the major labs go public over the next year or so, their founders and early employees will gain access to personal liquidity extraordinary in both its breadth (the number of employees) and depth (the absolute size of the wealth). Beyond simply financing candidates, they will be sustaining institutions and underwriting political projects for decades There need not be a coherent set of “AI politics” for this to matter (in fact, I doubt there is one!). These people can disagree profoundly and politics will still proactively warp itself in their direction. Whether you welcome this is a separate question. But the smart players in DC are building these relationships already
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Video generation is not a world model. A world model is a state plus a dynamics predictor that takes an action, forecasts the next state, and keeps simulating from its own prediction. Most of what circulated this weekend is still the first half.
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Fascinating! @phillip_isola says LLMs have the potential to puppet robots from the cloud. I'm with @JitendraMalikCV: forces and contacts need high-frequency control on the machine. Tuned to the domain. Definitely worth exploring, I look forward to tracking.
Recently, there have been a lot of impressive demos of AI agents, like Claude, controlling robots. I wrote a short blog post with my thoughts on the advent of these "robot-use agents." web.mit.edu/phillipi/www/wri… I think it's an important change in the trajectory of robotics!
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Vandy!
ABSOLUTELY INSANE WAY TO LOSE Vanderbilt never led all game up 31-28 NC State tries to kneel for a safety fumble -> Vandy TD -> Vandy win
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Damn
Jev was adopted faster than any other model in AI Gateway history. In the first day, @typesafeai reached ~13% of teams, 2x the GPT-5.6 family and 6x Fable 5.1.
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Agentic payment rails
🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform. Learn more: • muse.ai/platform • docs.stripe.com/agentic-comm… • Email jweinstein@ / @jeff_weinstein
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phil bronner retweeted
Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there. New connectors are live today. Come build with us. muse.ai/platform
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phil bronner retweeted
Old enough to remember when we criticized China, Pakistan, Venezuela and Belarus for retaliating against news organizations whose coverage their leaders didn’t like. We are a banana republic
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The future is already here We just have to choose it and spread it faster
Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, found that Waymo's autonomous vehicles generated 88% fewer property damage claims and 92% fewer bodily injury claims than human-driven vehicles. humanprogress.org/waymo-driv…
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World model for biomedicine. I am seeing WMs cross domain in addition to the physical world: predicting future events, predicting business outcomes, ect. What LLM’s did for language world models do for consequences.
Excited to share that "World models for biomedicine" is out in @CellCellPress, by stellar @ayushnoori @njwfish @AdaFang_ Lukas Fesser doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.… In AI, a world model represents the state of a system and simulates how it evolves under alternative actions Game agents and robots use world models to test actions internally before executing them We ask what world models mean for biology, from molecules to cells, tissues, and patients A biomedical world model maps observations across modalities to a model state, takes an action (a drug, a knockout, a change in culture conditions), predicts a distribution over next states, and continues simulation from its own predictions What data and evaluations do we need to make this possible?
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phil bronner retweeted
Long-running agents create a new requirement for companies: an explicit model of the job. Not just the workflow, but the decisions, exceptions, handoffs, escalation paths, etc. For most knowledge work, that model doesn’t exist in one place today. It’s scattered across systems, documents and, hardest of all, people. Highly recommend reading @seema_amble’s article in thread below.
We’re talking a lot about long running/horizon agents now but owning the full job and getting these learning loops right is so important to enabling agents to do work over hours or days, through a complex logic chain with many in between decisions and handoffs
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COMMANDERS WEEK 1 RECAP PROS - Daronte Jones defense looks impressive - Offense comes alive in final mins, no turnovers - Rookies Sonny Styles, Antonio Williams standouot CONS - Lots of little mistakes - Mike Sainristil struggles a ton - Offense looks out of sync for most of game 📈 Nick Cross Sonny Styles Antonio Williams 🥶 Mike Sainristil Terry McLaurin Nick Allegretti BOTTOM LINE Commanders are going to be competitive this season and are a potential playoff team.
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Good take on the @Commanders . I am encouraged. First half was rusty but the pieces were there for a good season
Eagles 24, Commanders 22. My instant reactions: 1. The Commanders' defensive front was really good. Besides Saquon Barkley's 42-yard rush, they kept him in check for most of the game. The pass rush looked the part. 2. As well as the front-7 played, the back end still has question marks. The Dontayvion Wicks explosive play can't happen. Both Dallas Goedert TDs can't happen. The Jalen Hurts 22-yard rush on 3rd-and-18 can't happen. Backbreaking plays like that have been a common theme in Washington for years, regardless of the defensive scheme/coordinator. 3. Jayden Daniels looked rusty in the first half. Yes, he was pressured a lot, but he looked slow to process his reads early on. I thought he settled in well in the second half. That double-spin move run was awesome. The TD to Stefon Diggs was well executed. The last touchdown drive was impressive. I think we'll see a lot more of the Daniels we saw in the second half moving forward. 4. Stefon Diggs is going to be the most-targeted WR in this offense. The TD route was filthy. The celebration that led to the penalty, fair or unfair, was costly. The two drops were bad. Still, I came away from today's game thinking he will have a big year. 5. Antonio Williams is going to be a stud. Daniels' best throw of the day was to the rookie on a 33-yarder over two defenders. Williams' late TD showcased great hands on a not-great throw. 4/64/1 in your debut ain't too shabby. 6. How does Terry McLaurin not have a catch until the fourth quarter? That can't happen, and it's happened more times than it should throughout his career. His catch on 4th-and-2 was big. 7. I thought Bill Croskey-Merritt ran the ball well. Ball security remains an issue with him. There's a reason Kaytron Allen got a couple of key carries late. 8. Throw that 2-point conversion play call in the trash.
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This is the greatest repetition of football you’ll see this weekend. At any position.
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Someone tell Ben to get the dub quick today cause my @Commanders play at 4:25
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