a16z Investor Says Hardware Is New Frontier

Christian Keil, a partner at a16z on the American Dynamism team, posted on X that the new frontier is hardware. He stated that more data and better tests and benchmarks are needed. The posts include a screenshot of the EEBench v1 leaderboard titled Electrical engineering agent benchmark, showing a ranked table of AI models. Keil linked to a post by Martin Casado questioning whether advancing models for high-skilled dev tasks remains economically sensible.