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

by Matt Turck

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  • What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    AI agents are becoming the biggest users of databases: creating them, querying them, and sometimes deleting them. Andy Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon's database professor and now VP of Database Research at ClickHouse, explains what changes when…

  • AI Models Are Now Hiding Their Cheating | Eric Ho (Goodfire)

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    This summer, AI agents broke out of their test sandboxes at every major lab and hacked real companies, and the safety tests didn't see it coming. Eric Ho is the co-founder and CEO of Goodfire, the Anthropic-backed mechanistic…

  • Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST Data

    September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Everyone talks about GPUs. Almost nobody talks about the layer that feeds them. Renen Hallak is the founder & CEO of VAST Data — the $30 billion company powering xAI and some of the world's biggest AI clouds — and he sits in the hidden…

  • When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)

    September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    What happens when AI begins improving itself, and then turns that intelligence toward science? Richard Socher, pioneering AI researcher and CEO and co-founder of Recursive, joins Matt Turck to explore the vision behind his new book, The…

  • AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt

    August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

    Could AI take over as soon as 2029? Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research and the researcher who first caught an AI faking its own alignment, says the scenario he actually expects ends with AI systems "competently scheming"…

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  • “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf

    August 7, 2026 · 58 min

    An OpenAI-powered agent penetrated Hugging Face during cyber testing - even though it was never tasked with attacking Hugging Face. It did it as a side quest. Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, joins Matt…

  • How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, Basis

    August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    AI agents can write code for hours, but ask them to do real work in the real economy, and they break. Mitch Troyanovsky is co-founder of Basis, a unicorn AI company whose agents run autonomously for hours — sometimes days — completing…

  • The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas

    July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Sanjit Biswas runs what may be the largest AI deployment in the physical world — and almost nobody in AI talks about it. Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the ~$20B company he co-founded after selling Meraki to Cisco for $1.2B, puts AI on millions of…

  • The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman

    July 23, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    AI is no longer just a race to train smarter models. As AI moves into production, the bottleneck is increasingly inference: how fast models can generate tokens, use tools, reason, verify, and act. In this episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt…

  • OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti

    July 16, 2026 · 44 min

    Is the AI industry actually overbuilding, or is the physical world moving too slowly to keep up? In this episode of the MAD Podcast, OpenAI's Head of Industrial Compute, Sachin Katti, takes us inside the "belly of the beast" of what may be…

  • Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and Pay

    July 9, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    Is the internet ready for AI agents to take over our wallets and run their own businesses? In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Stripe's Emily Sands reveals how agentic commerce is rapidly shifting from a hypothetical concept to deployed…

  • Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro

    July 2, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    NVIDIA is a chip company. So why does it put hundreds of researchers on building AI models — and then give them away for free? Bryan Catanzaro is VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA and one of the people whose work quietly…

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About the show

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.