The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
By Matt Turck
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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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Mistral Is SO Back: Inside Le Chonk, the West’s Biggest Open Model (Pierre Stock, VP Science, Mistral)
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Jev: The AI That Makes Decisions, Not Text - and Why It Changes Everything (Diogo Almeida)
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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AI Models Are Now Hiding Their Cheating | Eric Ho (Goodfire)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST Data
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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“OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, Basis
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and Pay
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
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May 28, 2026 |
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OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
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May 21, 2026 |
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The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
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May 14, 2026 |
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OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter on the Real Risks of Frontier AI
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May 07, 2026 |
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Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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AI is Already Building AI | Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Voice AI’s Big Moment: Why Everything Is Changing Now (ft. Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Are AI Evals Broken? Anthropic/NYU’s Pavel Izmailov on LLM Evaluation, Reasoning & “Alien” Behavior
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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DeepMind Gemini 3 Lead: What Comes After "Infinite Data"
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The Rise of Agentic Commerce — Emily Glassberg Sands (Stripe)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next | FirstMark
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Inside Canva’s $3B ARR AI Design Rocketship — CTO Brendan Humphreys on Magic Studio & Canva Code
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
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May 29, 2025 |
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AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
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May 22, 2025 |
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Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Why Influx Rebuilt Its Database for the IoT and Robotics Explosion
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May 08, 2025 |
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Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
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May 01, 2025 |
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Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street Capital
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
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May 23, 2024 |
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AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
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May 16, 2024 |
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The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak from VAST Data
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May 03, 2024 |
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Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire from Roblox
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? | Benedict Evans
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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From Social App to Data Giant: Foursquare's Evolution | Gary Little from Foursquare
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Why generative AI will unlock new art forms | Cris Valenzuela from Runway
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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2024 will be the year of Generative AI in production in the enterprise | Florian Douetteau from Dataiku
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Why Ecosystem Partnerships Are The Future In The Age Of AI | Bob Moore from Crossbeam
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Saving lives with AI | Emi Gal from Ezra
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Embracing AI: Lessons from Intercom's Journey
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Is the Modern Data Stack Dead? with dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Vector Databases and the Future of AI-Native Applications with Weaviate’s CEO Bob van Luijt
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alexander Rinke
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Nomic: Truly open AI
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Poolside: AI for Software Development with CTO Eiso Kant
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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ASAPP: Generative AI for Contact Centers with CEO Gustavo Sapoznik
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Scott Belsky: AI & Creativity
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Glean AI: The ML-Powered Accounting Solution with CEO Howard Katzenberg
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Humanloop: LLM Collaboration and Optimization with CEO Raza Habib
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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DeepScribe: The AI-Powered Medical Scribe with CEO Akilesh Bapu
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Lamini: Fine-Tuning LLMs for The Enterprise with CEO Sharon Zhou
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Perplexity AI: The AI-Powered Answer Engine with CEO Aravind Srinivas
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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BigID: Data Visibility & Control with CEO Dimitri Sirota
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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You.com: An AI Chatbot to Search The Web with CEO Richard Socher
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Cockroach Labs: A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival with CEO Spencer Kimball
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Ada: AI-First Customer Service with CEO Mike Murchison
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Dataiku: The Single Platform for Everyday AI with CEO Florian Douetteau
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Chroma: Programmable AI-Native Databases with Co-Founder Jeff Huber
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Hebbia: Saving Smart People from Mundane Tasks with CEO George Sivulka
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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How Data Happened - A Conversation with Chris Wiggins, Author and Chief Data Officer at The New York Times
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Notion: An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Head of Data Daniel Sternberg
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Pinecone: Long Term Memory for AI with CEO Edo Liberty
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May 31, 2023 |
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Vectara: LLM Powered Search with CEO Amr Awadallah
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May 24, 2023 |
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Amplify Partners: AI Investing and the Startup Landscape with General Partner Sarah Catanzaro
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May 17, 2023 |
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Assembly AI: Generative AI for Speech Recognition with CEO Dylan Fox
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May 10, 2023 |
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Lightning AI: Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch with CEO William Falcon
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May 03, 2023 |