The a16z Show · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The increasing prevalence of AI agents, capable of parallel and long-running tasks, is significantly boosting compute requirements. These agents can autonomously write code, search, and perform tasks, leading to a much larger demand for computational resources than previously anticipated.
“If you think about the rise of agents, you have parallel tasks, you have long running tasks, and so, I mean, Alex, you mentioned this previously, right?”
“And so if you think about agents autonomously writing code, searching, carrying out these tasks, it just gives these platforms a much larger compute requirement than ever thought before.”
“And so if you think about agents autonomously writing code, searching, carrying out these tasks, it just gives these platforms a much larger compute requirement than ever thought before.”