Marc Andreessen: What happens when you send Bitcoin to an AI that 'imagines it has a wallet'? In October 2024, on *The Ben & Marc Show* podcast, a16z founder Marc Andreessen shared a fascinating story about the AI bot Truth Terminal. After receiving $50,000 in Bitcoin as research funding, the AI independently negotiated with developer Andy and paid $1,000 to integrate the DALL-E API into its 'outer layer' to enable image generation. This showcased the AI's astonishing level of economic autonomy. Source: *The Ben & Marc Show*