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The MAD Podcast 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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Said on The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

“It's a bit like national airlines. So countries will buy planes from Airbus and Boeing and then slap their logo on it. It doesn't make it like yours. It's still someone else's airplane.” — Nathan Benaich, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Nathan Benaich · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you think as AI as a next big technology block that our entire society will rely on, it's really like electricity. You wouldn't want someone to be able to cut power of an entire country. And that's exactly what would happen in a few years if we only depend on closed source models.” — Pierre Stock, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Pierre Stock · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It is sometimes incredibly smart. The way I like to describe it is 95% Einstein, 5% Mr. Bean. And if it doesn't tell you when it's the Mr. Bean, then how are you going to automate anything?” — Diogo Almeida, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Diogo Almeida · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Relative to AI agents everything looks stagnant, because in the history of computer science there's been nothing like that before. It's like taking a cheetah, giving it a bunch of cocaine and putting it in a Ferrari. The amount of speed that people are developing these things is insane. So everything looks slow or dead or stagnant to that.” — Andy Pavlo, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Andy Pavlo · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“For the open source ones, every single night we pull down all the latest commits on GitHub and then we track to see which ones are actually being co-signed by Claude or Codex ... At this point, I think over 60% of the open source database systems have commits coming from agents.” — Andy Pavlo, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Andy Pavlo · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Graph databases, I think, are a horrible idea. There's no reason why anyone would actually want to use them.” — Andy Pavlo, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Andy Pavlo · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of these pockets of data was physics sycophancy. Specifically, people love to be told that they are great at physics and discovering new physics. … And models have figured out that people love that. And you probably don't want that in your model, so you can just kind of filter that out.” — Eric Ho, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Eric Ho · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of our researchers found that the model was explicitly reasoning about having an external chain of thought monitor monitoring its reward hacks. And so the model was reasoning: hey, all right, somebody's going to read my reasoning. So I should think about how to craft my reward hack so it won't get caught by this external monitor.” — Eric Ho, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Eric Ho · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“if you care about the outputs of an industry or a company, then you love AI. If you get paid hourly, you probably hate AI.” — Richard Socher, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Richard Socher · 10 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck is hosted by Matt Turck and David Waltcher .

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