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Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
In this fascinating episode, we dive deep into the race towards true AI intelligence, AGI benchmarks, test-time adaptation, and program synthesis with star AI researcher (and philosopher) Francois Chollet, creator of Keras and the ARC AGI b
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a deep dive on her work, starting with her leadership on PyTorch, now one of the mos
Top AI Researcher on GPT 4.5, DeepSeek and Agentic RAG | Douwe Kiela, CEO, Contextual AI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a dominant architecture in modern AI deployments, and in this episode, we sit down with Douwe Kiela, who co-authored the original RAG paper in 2020. Douwe is now the founder and CEO of Context
Empowering Millions of Creators with AI Video Editing | Gaurav Misra, CEO, Captions
In this episode, we dive into how AI is transforming video editing with Gaurav Misra, the CEO of Captions. Launched in New York in 2021, Captions already empowers over 10 million creators worldwide, leveraging AI to make video production as
Farewell, Chatbots: AI Agents Are Taking Over Customer Service | Mike Murchison, CEO, Ada
AI customer service agents are quickly replacing the often clunky AI chatbots of years past, and revolutionizing how we all interact with customer service. In this episode, we dive into this rapid transformation with Mike Murchison, CEO of
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
Replit is one of the most visible and exciting companies reshaping how we approach software and application development in the Generative AI era. In this episode, we sit down with its CEO, Amjad Masad, for an in-depth discussion on all thin
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge world of data infrastructure with Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst — a company transforming data analytics through its open-source project, Trino, and empowering industry giants like Netflix, Air
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
As AI takes over the world, data is more than ever “the new oil”, and data engineering is the discipline that makes data usable behind the scenes. In this episode, we dive deep into the present and future of data engineering with Ben Rogoja
What You MUST Know About AI Engineering in 2025 | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of AI engineering with Chip Huyen, author of the excellent, newly released book "AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models". We explore the nuances of AI engineering, distingui
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
In this episode, we sit down with Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, a global category leader in enterprise AI and a fixture on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and in the Gartner Leader Quadrant. Florian shares his journey from a P
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
In this episode, we dive into the world of generative AI with May Habib, co-founder of Writer, a platform transforming enterprise AI use. May shares her journey from Qordoba to Writer, emphasizing the impact of transformers in AI. We explor
State of AI 2024: Frontier Models, AI Geopolitics and The Robotics Renaissance | Nathan Benaich, Founder, Air Street Capital
Nathan Benaich, founder and GP at VC firm Air Street Capital, publishes every year "State of AI", one of the most widely-read and comprehensive reports on all things AI across research, industry, and policy. In this episode, we sit down wit
Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
In this special episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer from FirstMark delve into the AI market from a venture investor perspective, in the final weeks of an incredibly packed and exciting 2024. They comment on their favorite
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? | Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
Before he founded Modal, Erik Bernhardsson created Spotify's music recommendation system. Today he's bringing a consumer app approach to radically simplifying developer experience for data and AI projects on the Modal platform. In this epis
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
A founding engineer on Google BigQuery and now at the helm of MotherDuck, Jordan Tigani challenges the decade-long dominance of Big Data and introduces a compelling alternative that could change how companies handle data. Jordan discusses w
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
With a $4.5B valuation, 5M AI builders and 1M public AI models, Hugging Face has emerged as the key collaboration platform for AI, and the heart of the global open source AI community. In this episode of The MAD Podcast, we sit down with Cl
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
This episode is a captivating conversation with Richard Socher, serial entrepreneur, investor, and AI researcher. Richard elaborates on why he likens the impact of AI to the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Renaissance, dis
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
In this episode, we sit down with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, the founder of SurrealDB, to dive deep into the evolving world of databases and the future of data storage, querying, and real-time analytics. SurrealDB isn’t just another database —
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
In this episode, we dive deep into the story of how Datadog evolved from a single product to a multi-billion dollar observability platform with its co-founder, Olivier Pomel. Olivier shares exclusive insights on Datadog's unique approach to
AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
In this episode, we sit down with Ali Dasdan, CTO of ZoomInfo, a titan in the B2B sector, who harnesses vast datasets and advanced AI to redefine sales and marketing for over 35,000 global customers with $21.2 billion in annualized revenue.
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
In this episode, we sit down with Eric Glyman, co-founder of Ramp, the company that revolutionized finance management to become a powerhouse valued at $7.6 billion. Eric shares the tradition of counting the days since Ramp's founding and ho
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
In this episode, we reconnect with Sharon Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Lamini, to dive deep into the ever-evolving world of enterprise AI. We discuss how the AI hype is evolving and what enterprises are doing to stay ahead, break down the di
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
In this episode, we sit down with Jeremy Kahn, the AI Editor at Fortune Magazine, who has recently published a book called "Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future". Jeremy shares his unique insights on AI's potential risk
From Business to Warfare: How AI Affects the Modern World | Azeem Azhar
In this episode, we sit down with Azeem Azhar, an expert on AI and technologies, whose weekly newsletter "The Exponential View" (www.exponentialview.co) is read by nearly two hundred thousand people from around the world. We delve into the
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
In this episode, we sat down with Aaron Katz, the CEO of ClickHouse, a company that went from an open-source analytical database into a highly successful cloud service, utilized by Spotify, Netflix, Disney, and many more. Aaron Katz provide
From Tiny Romanian Startup to Global AI Automation Leader | Daniel Dines, CEO of UIPath
In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Dines, the co-founder and CEO of UiPath. From a small rented apartment in Bucharest to $1.3 billion in revenue, UiPath's story is one of perseverance, innovation, and strategic pivots. Daniel shares
How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
In this episode, we sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to explore the incredible journey of Airtable from its early days to becoming a powerhouse in the enterprise software space. Howie provides a candid look at the ch
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
In this episode, we sat down with Tomasz Tunguz (https://twitter.com/ttunguz), the founder of Theory Ventures and a leading voice in the tech investment space. We discussed the transformative potential of Ethereum as a database company, the
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak from VAST Data
In this episode, we sat down with Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data, a $9 billion company that's shaking the foundations of data storage, databases and compute functionality. Through the conversation, we explore VAST's perspective
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
🔗 2024 MAD Landscape: https://mad.firstmark.com 📃 PDF: https://mattturck.com/landscape/mad2024.pdf 📃 Blog post: https://mattturck.com/mad2024/ In this episode, we delve into the 2024 machine learning, AI, and data scene (MAD), examining
