{"podcast":{"title":"AI + a16z","slug":"ai-a16z-6874937","podcast_index_feed_id":6874937,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Hb_IuXOo","website_url":"https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/89450696-5007-4713-8168-eea085e49626/80ad2223-d8fa-4bb2-9645-8e2c1168a372/3000x3000/ai-a16z-podcast-cover-art-2.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Derrick Harris","episode_count":100,"summary":"Artificial intelligence is changing everything from art to enterprise IT, and a16z is watching all of it with a close eye. This podcast features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts, as well as our general partners, about where the technology and industry are heading.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T06:20:43.738545+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937"},"episode":{"title":"From Vector Databases to Knowledge Engines: The Next Layer of AI","slug":"from-vector-databases-to-knowledge-engines-the-next-layer-of-ai","published_at":"2026-05-05T15:39:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937/from-vector-databases-to-knowledge-engines-the-next-layer-of-ai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937","url":"https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/from-vector-databases-to-knowledge-engines-the-next-layer-of-ai-8KtL2DHx","audio_url":"https://mgln.ai/e/1344/afp-848985-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/112866f3-1a50-4a8d-b12e-850b73e71b33/episodes/cbceed02-e629-4f00-9a55-05e478595b97/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=112866f3-1a50-4a8d-b12e-850b73e71b33&awEpisodeId=cbceed02-e629-4f00-9a55-05e478595b97&feed=Hb_IuXOo","summary":"Peter Levine speaks with Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Pinecone, about the launch of Nexus and the shift from vector databases to knowledge engines. As agents become the primary users of software, they discuss why traditional retrieval systems break down and how AI systems need to evolve to support machine-to-machine interactions. The conversation explores how agents currently spend most of their time retrieving and reasoning over data, why that approach is inefficient, and how moving reasoning closer to the data can dramatically improve performance, accuracy, and cost. Ash also explains how Pinecone is rethinking the stack for agentic applications, introducing new abstractions, query languages, and developer workflows.","meta_description":"Peter Levine speaks with Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Pinecone, about the launch of Nexus and the shift from vector databases to knowledge engines. As agents beco…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2788,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-a16z-6874937/episodes/from-vector-databases-to-knowledge-engines-the-next-layer-of-ai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-a16z-6874937/from-vector-databases-to-knowledge-engines-the-next-layer-of-ai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}