Reasoning Models Are Remaking Professional Services

In this episode of AI + a16z, a16z partner Alex Immerman sits down with Hebbia founder and CEO George Sivulka to discuss the potential for reasoning models and AI agents to supercharge knowledge-worker productivity — and the global economy along with it. As George explains, his customers are already saving significant time and and effort on important, but monotonous, tasks, and improved models paired with savvy users will continue to reshape how industries including finance, law, and other professional services operate.

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00:00 - Quote
00:59 - Intro
01:15 - Scaling Laws
02:34 - Deepseek
04:26 - Deep Research
06:01 - Hebbia origin story
09:11 - AI for financial services
12:26 - A different approach to ‘chat’ interfaces
14:34 - What differentiates Hebbia in financial services
16:23 - Buy-side use cases
21:53 - Financial advisor use cases
23:26 - ROI on AI in 2025
25:46 - AI / Human Relationship
26:52 - Humans in the loop, designing Hebbia for AI literate professionals
28:42 - What does the industry look like in 10 years
32:35 - Pricing and business models
34:00- UX / UI
35:20 - What does success look like?
36:26 - Outro