Andreessen Horowitz Backs $100 Million Pro-AI Political Push

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is joining other major Silicon Valley investors in backing a new $100 million political network that seeks to influence US artificial intelligence policy, deepening the tech industry’s involvement in politics under President Donald Trump.

The group, called Leading the Future, plans to target what it sees as unnecessary regulation and support “policies that unlock the transformative and economic benefits of AI,” through a network of political-action committees, according to a press release.

Other early backers of the effort include AI search startup Perplexity, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna, and longtime tech investors Ron ...