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Matt Turck

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Matt Turck invests in early-stage AI, ML and data startups at FirstMark. Essays on the MAD landscape, plus full transcripts of The MAD Podcast.

AI / MLTech news / industry

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349 from 3 May 2023 to 22 Oct 2026
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2026 35

  1. Mistral Is SO Back: Inside Le Chonk, the West’s Biggest Open Model (Pierre Stock, VP Science, Mistral)
  2. All episodes | The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
  3. Jev: The AI That Makes Decisions, Not Text - and Why It Changes Everything (Diogo Almeida)
  4. What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)
  5. AI Models Are Now Hiding Their Cheating | Eric Ho (Goodfire)
  6. Who Feeds the GPUs? Inside AI's Hidden $30B Layer | Renen Hallak, VAST Data
  7. When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
  8. AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late? | Ryan Greenblatt
  9. “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
  10. How to Build Long-Horizon AI Agents — Mitch Troyanovsky, Basis
  11. The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
  12. The Biggest Chip Ever Built — Why OpenAI Runs On It | Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman
  13. OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
  14. Stripe's AI Chief: How AI Agents Will Buy, Sell, and Pay
  15. Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
  16. Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
  17. The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
  18. OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
  19. State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
  20. OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
  21. The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
  22. OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter on the Real Risks of Frontier AI
  23. Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
  24. AI is Already Building AI | Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
  25. Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
  26. Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
  27. AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
  28. Voice AI’s Big Moment: Why Everything Is Changing Now (ft. Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
  29. Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
  30. New Investment: Daytona, Building the Computer for AI Agents
  31. Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
  32. State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
  33. The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
  34. Are AI Evals Broken? Anthropic/NYU’s Pavel Izmailov on LLM Evaluation, Reasoning & “Alien” Behavior
  35. New Investment: Harmattan, and the Visceral Need for Defense AI

2025 39

  1. DeepMind Gemini 3 Lead: What Comes After "Infinite Data"
  2. New Investment: Gradium
  3. What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
  4. Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
  5. Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
  6. State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
  7. Bubble & Build: The 2025 MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape
  8. Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic)
  9. How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
  10. Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)
  11. Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO
  12. AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
  13. How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
  14. Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
  15. Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI
  16. The Rise of Agentic Commerce — Emily Glassberg Sands (Stripe)
  17. AI Engineering Revolution: Winners, Chaos & What’s Next | FirstMark
  18. Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
  19. Inside Canva’s $3B ARR AI Design Rocketship — CTO Brendan Humphreys on Magic Studio & Canva Code
  20. GitHub CEO: The AI Coding Gold Rush, Vibe Coding & Cursor
  21. Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
  22. AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
  23. AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
  24. Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)
  25. Why Influx Rebuilt Its Database for the IoT and Robotics Explosion
  26. Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
  27. Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
  28. Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
  29. Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
  30. Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
  31. Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
  32. Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
  33. Quick S-1 Teardown: CoreWeave
  34. Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions
  35. Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
  36. The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
  37. Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
  38. Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
  39. What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”

2024 36

  1. Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
  2. Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
  3. State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street Capital
  4. AI in 2024: Never a Dull Moment
  5. Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
  6. Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
  7. The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
  8. The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
  9. AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
  10. Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
  11. Quick S-1 Teardown: Cerebras
  12. AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
  13. AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
  14. AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
  15. Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
  16. An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
  17. From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
  18. How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
  19. Is SaaS dead?
  20. From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
  21. How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
  22. AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
  23. The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak from VAST Data
  24. Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
  25. AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire from Roblox
  26. Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? | Benedict Evans
  27. From Social App to Data Giant: Foursquare's Evolution | Gary Little from Foursquare
  28. Why generative AI will unlock new art forms | Cris Valenzuela from Runway
  29. 2024 will be the year of Generative AI in production in the enterprise | Florian Douetteau from Dataiku
  30. Why Ecosystem Partnerships Are The Future In The Age Of AI | Bob Moore from Crossbeam
  31. Saving lives with AI | Emi Gal from Ezra
  32. Embracing AI: Lessons from Intercom's Journey
  33. Is the Modern Data Stack Dead? with dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy
  34. Vector Databases and the Future of AI-Native Applications with Weaviate’s CEO Bob van Luijt
  35. Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alexander Rinke
  36. Nomic: Truly open AI

2023 34

  1. Poolside: AI for Software Development with CTO Eiso Kant
  2. ASAPP: Generative AI for Contact Centers with CEO Gustavo Sapoznik
  3. Scott Belsky: AI & Creativity
  4. Glean AI: The ML-Powered Accounting Solution with CEO Howard Katzenberg
  5. Humanloop: LLM Collaboration and Optimization with CEO Raza Habib
  6. DeepScribe: The AI-Powered Medical Scribe with CEO Akilesh Bapu
  7. Lamini: Fine-Tuning LLMs for The Enterprise with CEO Sharon Zhou
  8. Perplexity AI: The AI-Powered Answer Engine with CEO Aravind Srinivas
  9. Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge
  10. Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu
  11. Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu
  12. Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu
  13. Guardrails AI: Deploying Generative AI Safely with CEO Shreya Rajpal
  14. AI21 Labs: Bringing Reliable AI to the Enterprise with Co-Founder Ori Goshen
  15. AI, Gaming, and Building a Data Science Brand - A Conversation with Carly Taylor, Founder of Rebel Data Science
  16. Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic
  17. BigID: Data Visibility & Control with CEO Dimitri Sirota
  18. Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah
  19. You.com: An AI Chatbot to Search The Web with CEO Richard Socher
  20. Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald
  21. Cockroach Labs: A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival with CEO Spencer Kimball
  22. Ada: AI-First Customer Service with CEO Mike Murchison
  23. Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli
  24. LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu
  25. Dataiku: The Single Platform for Everyday AI with CEO Florian Douetteau
  26. Chroma: Programmable AI-Native Databases with Co-Founder Jeff Huber
  27. Hebbia: Saving Smart People from Mundane Tasks with CEO George Sivulka
  28. How Data Happened - A Conversation with Chris Wiggins, Author and Chief Data Officer at The New York Times
  29. Notion: An AI Assistant to Work Faster with Head of Data Daniel Sternberg
  30. Pinecone: Long Term Memory for AI with CEO Edo Liberty
  31. Vectara: LLM Powered Search with CEO Amr Awadallah
  32. Amplify Partners: AI Investing and the Startup Landscape with General Partner Sarah Catanzaro
  33. Assembly AI: Generative AI for Speech Recognition with CEO Dylan Fox
  34. Lightning AI: Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch with CEO William Falcon

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