Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Bitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z

Feb 19, 2026 · 55m

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✨ AI Summary

Martin Casado and Sarah Wang discuss venture vs. growth funding.
The blurring lines between venture capital and growth equity.
Unprecedented speed of AI model labs converting capital to capability.

Guests on This Episode

Spanish-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor · 5 podcast appearances

1 podcast appearance

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