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The name has always made me think it was a bunch of corporate lawyers. I suppose the difference is increasingly academic.
A16Z stands for the first and last letters of their names, 16 is the number of characters in between.
The subtext is: "maybe they're pushing the abbreviated brand because they want to sound less like a law firm."
I think Meta's strategy is to capture the 'normie-tier' of AI users. I know most of us here on HN track model releases quite frequently and discuss every parameter weight out of them, but most of the world is just... oblivious? I was discussing latest in tech with an accounting friend out of curiosity, and I kept talking about tiers of GPT-5.6 (Sol vs Terra vs Luna) and asked which one she used on the desktop 'Work'…
I confess that when I ride the subway, I like to peer at other people's phones to see what they are doing. The ones that interest me the most are other people talking with an LLM. I am always surprised by the wide variety of people who are using LLMs to ask an infinite variety of questions. From the surface-level PR annoucement here by Meta, this seems like a good business idea.
I’ve desperately tried to use the Claude work, ChatGPT work, even OpenClaw, and I’ve yet to find a meaningful use of such an assistant. Maybe my life is too boring, but what I see here is a bunch of stuff that makes life more complicated. IF the things I use are well supported here, and IF I have manual repetitive tasks to delegate with them, it feels a bit like taking a nap while using FSD - I don’t trust an LLM to…
Just my use case: outside of software job, I have two young kids and we have two rentals to manage. So when I'm standing in line at a pharmacy or watching kid at practice, I'd like to continue a session about some xyz thing I need to do.