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a16z Puts $35M Into Horowitz Andreessen Academy; Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI Provide Compute

By Alexis Dufresne Published September 22, 2026 at 13:59 UTC

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Andreessen Horowitz is spending $35M to seed a free two-year San Francisco residential 'Academy' for recent high-school grads and college dropouts building AI products. Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Anduril, Palantir, Coinbase, Replit and Stripe are founding partners providing compute and hiring pipelines. Each student gets $50k+ in compute credits, a $5k travel budget and access to a16z's network; the founding fellowship launches Fall 2027.

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Original headline: a16z Puts $35M Into Horowitz Andreessen Academy; Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI Provide Compute