AI’s Next Wave Isn’t a Tsunami. It’s a Rainforest.

Remember when “one big model will eat everything” felt inevitable? Turns out, AI looks less like a Death Star and more like the Amazon: dense, diverse, and loud. You don’t win a rainforest by planting a single giant tree. You win by finding the sunlit gaps where a new species can take root.

That’s the core message I took from the a16z session on AI’s sta…