Factory
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Factory is an AI software company developing autonomous coding agents and developer tools intended to automate and accelerate software engineering workflows.
7 episodes featuring Factory
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AI companies collide over cloud power, talent and commerce
The episode connects Nvidia’s ecosystem strategy, startup governance disputes and AI shopping experiments to a broader question about who controls the next layer of software.
Oct 1, 2026 · 32 min
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AI factories face scrutiny from investors, communities, and users
The episode connects infrastructure scale, venture conflict, water policy, and human-facing AI into one question: what responsible expansion looks like.
Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 35m
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AI’s boom tests infrastructure, regulation, and human judgment
The episode connects AI’s rapid expansion to the practical constraints of power, security, talent, markets, and public oversight.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2h 60m
The a16z Show
Aaron Levie makes the case for open AI models
The debate over open weights now reaches beyond model access to national competitiveness, enterprise economics, and who captures value as AI becomes cheaper.
Sep 5, 2026 · 31 min
The a16z Show
Borderless founders turn local trust into global scale
The episode examines how founders outside Silicon Valley can combine local credibility with global talent, capital, customers, and AI-enabled speed.
Aug 20, 2026 · 46 min
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AI tests software moats as surveillance and compute reshape business
The episode connects software disruption, frontier-model competition, commercial surveillance, and privacy accountability into one argument about where durable power now sits.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2h 12m
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AI’s next battlegrounds span biology, coding and commerce
The episode connects frontier research, enterprise AI economics and live-commerce scale to the practical choices shaping technology’s next phase.
Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 49m