Venture firm a16z has announced a new $1.1 billion fund, the Machine Age Fund, focused on AI hardware and infrastructure. The firm announced the fund on Aug. 28, with plans to invest in complete systems spanning chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers, robots and home AI devices. a16z notes that AI demand and compute density are surging, pushing existing supply chains and physical and computing architectures to their limits. Rack power, the firm points out, is rising from 5-10kW to 100-250kW, with expectations of reaching 1MW within three years. Data center scale is expanding toward hundreds of megawatts and even gigawatt-level campuses. The fund will target higher compute density, cheaper high-bandwidth memory, faster interconnects and low-power edge devices, along with supporting cooling, power and real estate infrastructure. The firm said the new vehicle will back a new generation of AI hardware startups building the physical layer that powers next-generation AI.
Venture firm a16z has raised $1.1 billion for a new fund aimed at the hardware and infrastructure layer powering artificial intelligence.
The firm announced the Machine Age Fund on Aug. 28, with plans to back companies building chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers, robots and home AI devices.
Rack power set to climb toward 1MW
a16z notes that surging AI demand and compute density are pushing existing supply chains and physical computing architectures to their limits. Rack power is climbing from 5-10kW to 100-250kW, and the firm expects that figure to reach 1MW within three years. Data center scale is likewise expanding toward hundreds of megawatts and even gigawatt-level campuses.
The fund will deploy capital into higher compute density, cheaper high-bandwidth memory, faster interconnects and low-power edge devices, plus the cooling, power and real estate infrastructure to support them — backing a new generation of AI hardware startups.
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