Andreessen Horowitz spends money on the place where his mouth is.
The company, also known as the A16Z, launched a new political action committee on Monday along with Silicon Valley heavyweight Slate. The PAC, which leads Future, aims to shape the American artificial intelligence policy. Technocrat has already sent over $100 million into the initiative, according to a press release.
Palantir Cofounder and Defense Tech Investor Joe Lonsdale, Openai co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna, AI Search Startup Perplexity and longtime venture capitalist Ron Conway support the efforts. We will lead future plans to raise more funds and attract more supporters in the coming weeks.
PACS technical support is part of Silicon Valley's worn-out playbook.
In the second half of 2024, the A16Z dumped more than $23 million on Crypto PAC Fairshake and others, preparing for the 2026 midterm election cycle. In the same year, A16Z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to ProDonald Trump's Super PAC.
In an X post on Monday, Colin McKun, head of government affairs at A16Z, wrote that he will “help leaders understand AI's promises” who will lead the future.
“AI is extremely important and transcends Democrats and Republicans,” Conway wrote in X.
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Leading the future comes after an election year that attracted strong interest from Silicon Valley. Capitol Hill also courts AI leaders. When it won the AI Race Summit in July (speaked by investors and top government officials including President Trump), the administration deployed an AI action plan, sought quick approval for new data centers, and urged AI labs to strip the model of language that is considered “ideological bias.”
PAC has also heightened fears about losing Silicon Valley's AI race to China, intensifying in the wake of the release of Deepseek's R1 model in January. According to a press release, Future The Future also aims to hamper AI innovation and to prevent policies that believe China will lead American technology.
“Don't get it wrong: this is also a race with China,” McKeun continued with X.
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