Andreessen Horowitz has stripped the word “crypto” from the name of its digital-asset arm, rebranding the unit as a16z Frontier and widening a $2.2 billion fund to include artificial intelligence, robotics, biomedicine and infrastructure for autonomous software agents.

Managing partner Chris Dixon disclosed the change in a post dated Oct. 22, alongside Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Eddy Lazzarin and Guy Wuollet, who will lead the renamed group. The vehicle affected is the firm’s fifth crypto fund, which closed in May at $2.2 billion. The unit has raised roughly $9.8 billion across five funds since it began backing blockchain startups in 2018.

The firm framed the move as an expansion rather than an exit. Dixon wrote that Andreessen…