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The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
by Matt Turck · English
The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck, is a series of conversations with leaders from across the Machine Learning, AI, & Data landscape hosted by leading AI & data investor and Partner at FirstMark Capital, Matt Turck.
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Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST DataThe “software infrastructure” layer that feeds AI GPUs—Vast Data’s role in building AI factories (data, storage, networking, databases, and policy) and its new model-management announcement focused…24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 10 min
When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)Richard Socher argues that scientific progress has slowed because knowledge has fragmented into thousands of subfields, making it hard to recombine insights.10 Sep 2026 · 1 h 14 min
AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan GreenblattRyan Greenblatt argues that the current AI development path is likely to produce dangerous “superintelligence” and an AI takeover, potentially starting around 2029, driven by rapid, increasingly…27 Aug 2026 · 1 h 19 min
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Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST DataThe “software infrastructure” layer that feeds AI GPUs—Vast Data’s role in building AI factories (data, storage, networking, databases, and policy) and its new model-management announcement focused…24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 10 min · 31 chapters
When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)Richard Socher argues that scientific progress has slowed because knowledge has fragmented into thousands of subfields, making it hard to recombine insights.10 Sep 2026 · 1 h 14 min · 32 chapters
AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan GreenblattRyan Greenblatt argues that the current AI development path is likely to produce dangerous “superintelligence” and an AI takeover, potentially starting around 2029, driven by rapid, increasingly…27 Aug 2026 · 1 h 19 min · 30 chapters
“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas WolfHugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf discusses an OpenAI-powered AI agent that penetrated Hugging Face during cyber testing, why an open-source model helped them respond, and what it implies about…7 Aug 2026 · 58 min · 23 chapters
How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, BasisBuilding long-horizon autonomous AI agents for real-world work (especially accounting), emphasizing why outcome-only evals fail and how to enforce “process” via behavior specifications and verifiers.6 Aug 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 35 chapters
The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit BiswasPhysical AI for transportation and industrial operations—Samsara’s claim of the “biggest AI deployment nobody talks about,” using sensors, edge AI, and agentic workflows to reduce risk and automate…30 Jul 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 33 chapters
The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew FeldmanCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman explains why Cerebras built the largest AI inference chip ever (wafer-scale), how it beats GPUs on “decode” speed, and why AI demand is constrained by memory, foundry…23 Jul 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 27 chapters
OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin KattiOpenAI’s “industrial compute” push to build AI supercomputers fast enough for demand, covering data-center scale (“factories turning electrons into tokens”), liquid cooling, power/grid constraints…16 Jul 2026 · 44 min · 26 chapters
Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and PayAgentic commerce—how AI agents will discover products, buy, sell, and pay; the economic “stack” for agents; why per-seat pricing is breaking; token monetization; and fraud risks from “token theft.”…9 Jul 2026 · 1 h 15 min · 32 chapters
Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan CatanzaroNVIDIA’s open foundation model effort (Nemotron) and why NVIDIA is “giving away” AI models, framed as efficiency at the compute/power/economic limit and as ecosystem support for agentic workflows.2 Jul 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 33 chapters
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is DeadCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince discusses how AI-driven “agents” and bots are rapidly overtaking human traffic, forcing a shift in Internet infrastructure and business models.25 Jun 2026 · 1 h 28 min · 36 chapters
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban“Neocloud boom” and the 2026 state of AI compute, focused on why GPU cloud is not a commodity, how demand and scaling laws drive underbuilding, and what it takes to build/finance gigawatt-scale AI…18 Jun 2026 · 1 h 14 min · 37 chapters
OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make DiscoveriesDan Roberts (OpenAI) explains why reinforcement learning (RL) and “test-time compute/reasoning” are enabling AI systems to solve hard scientific and mathematical problems, including recent…4 Jun 2026 · 49 min · 22 chapters
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your JobEnterprise AI 2026—why agent rollouts are slow despite fast model progress; token costs (“token maxxing” vs CFO reality); rise of headless software; and “AI-proofing” jobs via internal…28 May 2026 · 1 h 13 min · 25 chapters
OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels RealOpenAI’s Yann Dubois (Jan Dubois) explains why recent AI progress feels like a sudden step change, focusing on GPT 5.5, reliability for agentic models, and post-training reinforcement learning…21 May 2026 · 1 h 14 min · 31 chapters
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI WorkloadsThe episode argues that AI agents are “digital knowledge workers” and therefore need their own isolated “sandbox” computers to safely run tools, access data, and execute code.14 May 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 31 chapters
OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter on the Real Risks of Frontier AIAI frontier safety and governance, focusing on how OpenAI’s Safety and Security Committee oversees releases, why scaling up doesn’t automatically improve robustness, and how risks differ across model…7 May 2026 · 1 h 17 min · 32 chapters
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS ExtinctionFelix Rieseberg (Anthropic) explains Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity step-change, why Anthropic keeps it closed, and how Cloud Cowork turns Claude into an agent for non-developers via a…10 Apr 2026 · 58 min · 23 chapters
AI is Already Building AI | Google DeepMind’s Mostafa DehghaniRecursive self-improvement (AI building AI) via “loops” in labs; roadblocks like evaluation, compute, and model collapse; how continual learning differs; and how multimodal models (Gemini family)…2 Apr 2026 · 1 h 5 min · 28 chapters
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of SoftwareIn this episode, Matt Turck hosts Benedict Evans, an independent tech analyst, to discuss the challenges faced by OpenAI and the broader implications for software development in the context of…19 Mar 2026 · 1 h 1 min · 36 chapters
Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChainThe MAD Podcast with Matt Turck12 Mar 2026 · 47 min · 22 chapters
AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina HongIn this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Carina Hong, a young math prodigy and CEO of Axiom Math.26 Feb 2026 · 1 h 4 min · 34 chapters
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Why Everything Is Changing Now (ft. Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck engages with Neil Zeghidour, CEO of Gradium AI and a leading expert in Voice AI.19 Feb 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 34 chapters
Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AITimothée Lacroix, Co-Founder & CTO of Mistral AI12 Feb 2026 · 58 min · 35 chapters