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

Matt Turck

Topics: Technology

No. 130 in TechnologyNew

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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