The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck

The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck goes deep with the people building AI. Each week, Matt talks with top founders, researchers, and leaders about frontier models, agents, infrastructure, and the companies defining the AI economy. Guests include leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Vercel, LangChain, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Datadog, Cerebras, and more. Matt is a General Partner at FirstMark, a prolific investor in AI and the creator of the MAD Landscape, the industry’s reference map of the AI ecosystem. New episodes weekly. Transcripts and more at mattturck.com/podcast.

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Every guest on The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck

104 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Raza Habib

   Humanloop: LLM Collaboration and Optimization with CEO Raza Habib · Nov 2023

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   Shreya Rajpal

   Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal · Sep 2023

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   Zico Kolter

   OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter on the Real Risks of Frontier AI · May 2026

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   Carly Taylor

   AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science · Sep 2023

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   Dan Roberts

   OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries · Jun 2026

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   Eric Ho

   AI Models Are Now Hiding Their Cheating | Eric Ho (Goodfire) · Oct 2026

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   Jerry Tworek

   How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek · Oct 2025

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   Mike Murchison

   Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada · 2 episodes

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   Munjal Shah

   Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah · Aug 2023

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    Stanislas Polu

    Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu · Oct 2023

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    Thomas Wolf

    “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf · Aug 2026

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    Carina Hong

    AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong · Feb 2026

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    Felix Rieseberg

    Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction · Apr 2026

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    Jeremy Howard

    Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive) · May 2025

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    Jerry Liu

    LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu · Jul 2023

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    Sarah Catanzaro

    Amplify Partners: AI Investing and the Startup Landscape with General Partner Sarah Catanzaro · May 2023

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    Sebastian Raschka

    State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka · Jan 2026

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    Dimitri Sirota

    BigID: Data Visibility & Control with CEO Dimitri Sirota · Aug 2023

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    May Habib

    Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer · Nov 2024

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    Bob van Luijt

    Vector Databases and the Future of AI-Native Applications with Weaviate’s CEO Bob van Luijt · Feb 2024

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    Clément Delangue

    The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face · Oct 2024

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    Lukasz Kaiser

    What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author) · Nov 2025

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    Ori Goshen

    AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen · Sep 2023

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    Bryan Catanzaro

    Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro · Jul 2026

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    Dan Fu
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    Diogo Almeida

    Jev: The AI That Makes Decisions, Not Text - and Why It Changes Everything (Diogo Almeida) · Oct 2026

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    Tim Dettmers

    The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI) · Jan 2026

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    Amr Awadallah

    Vectara: LLM Powered Search with CEO Amr Awadallah · May 2023

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    Florian Douetteau

    Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku · 3 episodes

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    Mathew Lodge

    Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge · Oct 2023

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    Sharon Zhou

    Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini · 2 episodes

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    Stephen Balaban

    The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban · Jun 2026

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    Will Falcon

    Lightning AI: Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch with CEO William Falcon · May 2023

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    Ali Dasdan

    AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo · Sep 2024

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    Chris Wiggins

    How Data Happened - A Conversation with Chris Wiggins, Author and Chief Data Officer at The New York Times · Jun 2023

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    Jeff Huber

    Chroma: Programmable AI-Native Databases with Co-Founder Jeff Huber · Jun 2023

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    Jeremy Kahn

    An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune · Jul 2024

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    Sholto Douglas

    Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic) · Oct 2025

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    Akilesh Bapu

    DeepScribe: The AI-Powered Medical Scribe with CEO Akilesh Bapu · Nov 2023

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    Aman Kabeer

    Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark · 2 episodes

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