The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
Hosted by Matt Turck · Matt Turck
5.0from 89 ratings
- 135
- Episodes
- 106
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About 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.
- Publisher
- Matt Turck
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 3 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
106 of 135 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“95% Einstein, 5% Mr. Bean”: Jev’s Creator on Why AI Can’t Automate Anything Reliably (Diogo Almeida)
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why AI Agents Cheat | Eric Ho (Goodfire)
Inside a recent episode
“95% Einstein, 5% Mr. Bean”: Jev’s Creator on Why AI Can’t Automate Anything Reliably (Diogo Almeida)
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And because they're very legible, it becomes way easier to build these systems and just trust that they can run in the background. So in that example of the personal assistant, the fundamental basic concept is that Jeff is going to take the input, which could be data and or instructions, and will translate this not into text, which is what your language model does. But into a set of probabilities. So they will say this is urgent. Yes or no. Escalate. Yes or no. And if you escalate, send this to this department or that department. Yes. And also, there's like interesting nuance here where... Not to just you don't just ask Jeff, should I escalate? […]
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- Diogo Almeida
- Andy Pavlo
- Eric Ho
- Renen Hallak
- Richard Socher
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 1,070,934
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 28 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 61 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 89 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 90
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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