Episodes
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37 episodes in 2025
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55m ”We’re Ahead of Where I Thought We’d Be” — Gemini 3 & the Future of AI
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead Sebastien Bourgeau discusses the technical, architectural, and organizational shifts driving Gemini 3 and frontier AI sy…
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20m Google DeepMind Lead: Building AI Apps in Minutes with Gemini
Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind demonstrates the latest capabilities of Gemini 2.5, Veo 3.1, and Gemma models, showcasing live app creation, real-time multimodal voice interactions, and data…
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1h 5m What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews OpenAI Lead Research Scientist Łukasz Kaiser about the trajectory of artificial intelligence, the transition from pre-training …
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1h 28m Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews AI2 researchers Nathan Lambert and Luca Soldaini about the launch of the fully open-source OLMo 3 model family. They explore th…
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1h 6m Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
In this episode of the MAD Podcast, Poolside Co-CEO Eiso Kant joins Matt Turck to discuss Poolside's multi-gigawatt Project Horizon data center, novel reinforcement learning research paradig…
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1h 3m State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital, to analyze key findings from the State of AI 2025 report. They explore technical…
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1h 10m Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Anthropic researcher Julian Schrittwieser about the exponential growth trajectory of frontier AI, the evolution of reinforcemen…
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1h 16m How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, OpenAI's VP of Research Jerry Tworek speaks with host Matt Turck about the technological leap from standard language models to advanced reasoning systems …
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1h 10m Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Anthropic AI researcher Sholto Douglas about the release of Claude Sonnet 4.5, frontier model scaling paradigms, and why claims…
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1h 5m Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Pigment Co-CEO Eleonore Crespo about building AI-powered Enterprise Performance Management platforms and autonomous finance age…
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1h 5m AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Runway CEO Chris Valenzuela about the rapid evolution of generative AI video, the architectural design behind models like Gen-4…
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1h 8m How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck speaks with Granola Co-founder and CEO Chris Pedregal about building a breakout, opinionated AI workspace for knowledge workers. Chris dis…
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1h 0m Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, exploring how a simple CLI prototype evolved into a viral, multi-hundred-mil…
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1h 6m Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Reflection AI co-founder and former DeepMind researcher Misha Laskin about building organizational superintelligence for enterp…
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1h 15m The Rise of Agentic Commerce — Emily Glassberg Sands (Stripe)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Information at Stripe, discussing Stripe's proprietary AI foundation model, internal AI culture,…
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50m AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next | FirstMark
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, FirstMark's Matt Turck and David Walsher analyze the AI software engineering revolution, examining hyper-growth coding platforms, downstream DevOps bottle…
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1h 45m Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch joins FirstMark General Partner Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss the transformation of software engineering through vibe coding, autonomous agents, and the…
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56m Inside a $3B ARR Rocketship — Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys on Deploying AI at Scale
Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys joins host Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss Canva reaching $3 billion in ARR, scaling its global engineering team, and deploying flexible AI architectures…
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1h 4m GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke about GitHub's growth past $2 billion ARR, the progression from AI autocomplete to autonomous coding a…
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1h 2m Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere and co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper. Gomez discusses the t…
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48m AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
In this episode of The MAD Podcast recorded live at Data-Driven NYC, Hebbia Founder and CEO George Sivulka joins host Matt Turck to explore the future of enterprise AI, detailing how AI is e…
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1h 15m AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
Technology analyst Benedict Evans sits down with Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to evaluate the real-world state of artificial intelligence, separating commercial realities from hype. He prov…
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55m Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Answer.ai and Fast.ai, about building an Edison-inspired AI R&D lab that leverages open-source mod…
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35m Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData, about the technical evolution and business strategies behind InfluxDB. They discuss rebuilding …
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41m Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Sigma Computing CEO Mike Palmer on how Sigma surpassed $100 million in ARR by replacing static BI dashboards with a cloud-nativ…
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52m Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, to discuss the evolution of enterprise AI search, RAG, and AI agents. Jain shares strate…
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1h 15m Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Box CEO Aaron Levie joins host Matt Turck to discuss enterprise AI strategy, agent architectures, public market dynamics, and the organizational culture r…
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1h 23m Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins host Matt Turck to discuss Snowflake's evolution into an AI Data Cloud, the strategic adoption of open formats like …
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1h 0m Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
On The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews François Chollet and Mike Knoop to explore the limits of LLM scaling, the release of the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, breakthroughs in test-time reason…
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59m Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao discusses her journey from leading PyTorch development at Meta to building a fast, cost-effective AI inference and model customi…
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50m Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI and lead author of the seminal 2020 RAG paper, to discuss frontier AI models, the evolution o…
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1h 13m From Selfie to Studio: Captions CEO on AI Video for 10M Creators
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Captions CEO Gaurav Misra about building an AI-powered video creation studio that empowers over 10 million creators. They explo…
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1h 11m Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
Mike Murchison, CEO of Ada, joins host Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss how autonomous AI agents are revolutionizing enterprise customer service by shifting focus from simple deflect…
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1h 29m The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Replit CEO Amjad Masad about his journey from Jordan to building a global developer platform, the rise of autonomous AI coding …
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1h 6m Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
On this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Justin Borgman, CEO and co-founder of Starburst, to discuss the evolution of open-source data analytics, the rise of Apache Ice…
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1h 2m Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Ben Rogojan ('Seattle Data Guy') to explore the core responsibilities, technical skills, and practical workflows of data engine…
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1h 12m What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck speaks with computer scientist and author Chip Huyen about her book AI Engineering. They cover the shift from traditional ML to foundation…
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