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a16z's big ideas to build in 2026

1) Infrastructure

  • Multimodal data: extract structure from documents, images, and videos for the enterprise
  • Agent-native infrastructure: support massive "agent-speed" workloads
  • Multimodal creative tools: give a model whatever form of reference content you have and work with it to make something new or edit an existing scene
  • Al-native data stack: how Al agents navigate context problems the evolution of BI tools
  • Interactive video: starts feeling like a place we can actually step into

2) Consumer

  • Al-native university: professors become architects of learning, curating data, tuning models
  • Healthy MAUs emerge: consumers who aren't sick but want to monitor their health
  • ChatGPT becomes the Al app store: developers can now tap ChatGPT's 900M users
  • World models in storytelling: full 3D environments from text prompts

3) Crypto

  • Privacy creates network effects: privacy differentiates chains and creates chain lock-in
  • Prediction markets scale: become bigger, broader, and smarter
  • Know your agent: agents will need cryptographically signed credentials to transact
  • Staked media: not only embraces idea of having skin in the game, but supplies the proof

4) Enterprise fintech

  • Systems of record lose primacy: the interface becomes a dynamic agent layer
  • Vertical Al goes multiplayer: the collaboration layer becomes the moat
  • Voice agents expand: handling entire workflows and customer relationship cycles
  • Al-native banking infrastructure: streamlined and parallelized workflows

5) American Dynamism

  • Al-native industrial base: companies built with simulation, automated design, and operations from day one
  • Factory mindset: modular deployment of Al with skilled workers to make complex processes operate like assembly lines
  • Physical observability: understanding what's happening in cities, power grids, in real time
  • Autonomous scientific labs: labs that close the loop from hypothesis to experiment design
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