person

Martin Casado

Andreessen Horowitz general partner; infrastructure investor

General partner at Andreessen Horowitz leading the firm's infrastructure investments; previously co-founded Nicira (acquired by VMware). Vocal AI commentator on the a16z podcast.

current General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

@martin_casado

Strategy positions

Open sourceendorses

Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safety

Argues open-source AI is essential for both market structure and safety; framed regulatory capture by frontier labs as the principal AI risk to oppose.

Regulating AI right now means regulating math. Open source is the antidote to the regulatory capture being attempted by the largest labs.

¶ articleMartin Casado on AI regulation· a16z· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Ada Rose Cannon
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W3C web standards advocate; AR/VR engineer
Ali Farhadi
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Allen Institute for AI CEO
Ali Ghodsi
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Databricks co-founder and CEO
Anjney Midha
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Andreessen Horowitz general partner; AI investor
Arthur Mensch
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CEO of Mistral AI; French frontier-model founder
Ce Zhang
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ETH Zürich → University of Chicago; ML systems

Record last updated 2026-04-25.