The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

Today we're joined by Kanjun Qiu, CEO of Imbue, an independent research company developing AI agents with general intelligence, fresh off the announcement of their $200M Series B round of financing. We talk about Kanjun's journey, Imbue's vision and the future of AI agents.

Today we're joined by Shreya Rajpal, Co-founder & CEO of Guardrails AI for a conversation on the Guardrails platform, mitigating AI hallucinations and the role fine tuning and retrieval augmented generation play in that.

Today we are joined by Ori Goshen, Co-founder and Co-CEO of AI21 Labs, for a conversation about AI 21's origin story, their differentiated approach to AI, and their ambitious platform and applications.  

Today we are excited to welcome Carly Taylor for a broad discussion covering the numerous ways she's ingrained in the AI & data world including AI at Activision’s Call of Duty franchise, consulting at Rebel Data Science and being a prominent voice for data science on social media. 

We're joined by Milos Rusic, CEO & Co-founder of deepset AI for a conversation on deepset's origin story as a bootstrapped company, a deep dive into the Haystack open source project and deepset's Cloud platform, and emerging applications for NLP and LLMs in the enterprise.

Dimitri Sirota, Co-Founder and CEO of BigID, which has raised $280+ to date, joins us for a chat about the importance and complexities around knowing and controlling your enterprise data.

Today we are diving into the world of generative AI in Healthcare with CEO and Co-founder of Hippocratic AI, Munjal Shah. In this episode Matt and Munjal discuss the vision for Hippocratic AI, and the unique challenges and opportunities of deploying generative AI in the world of healthcare.

This week’s guest is top AI researcher, entrepreneur and investor Richard Socher, CEO of AI search engine You.com. In this conversation, we go behind the scenes and discuss some core design principles and building blocks of the You.com platform, as well as its market positioning. We close the discussion with Richard’s investment thesis and approach in the fast moving AI market

Today we have the pleasure of talking to Lukas Biewald, CEO of Weights and Biases for a conversation about Lukas' entrepreneurial journey building two companies in the MLOps space, the current capabilities of the Weights & Biases platform, lessons learned on the Go to Market front, and more!

Relational databases, data cloud's effect on infrastructure, serverless databases, and GTM strategies: Matt Turck and CockroachDB's Spencer Kimball cover it all in today's episode.

Today we're joined by Mike Murchison, Co-Founder & CEO of AI-native customer service platform Ada, for a talk about about the Ada platform, reinventing customer service in the age of Generative AI, and how AI should be onboarded and trained like an employee.

Today we're joined by Victor Riparbelli, CEO of the generative AI video platform Synthesia that just last month hit a $1B valuation after raising their Series C funding round. Matt and Victor go into the Synthesia platform, what it takes to build a successful AI company, and dive into the ethics of generative AI videos.

This week we're joined by Jerry Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of LlamaIndex,  a startup that offers a data framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models, for a conversation about the emerging Generative AI infrastructure stack, how startup founders navigate a field as new and fast paced as Generative AI, and more.

Today we're joined by Florian Douetteau, CEO and Co-Founder of Dataiku, for a conversation about the Dataiku platform, emerging use cases for Generative AI in the enterprise and some leadership lessons learned along the way. You can find Florian's essay, The Children of AI, here: https://children-of-ai.florian-douetteau.com twitter.com/fdouetteau dataiku.com In Conversation with Florian Douetteau...

We're joined by Jeff Huber, Co-founder of Chroma, for a chat on open-source AI-native databases.

Today we sit down with George Sivulka, CEO of the AI productivity tool, Hebbia, for a conversation on generative AI in fintech & government how how Hebbia keeps "smart people from doing stupid tasks" in fintech & government.

New York Times Chief Data Officer and Author of "How Data Happened" joins us for a conversation on the multifaceted impact data has had on our society.

Today we're joined by Daniel Sternberg, Head of Data at Notion, for a conversation on the release of Notion AI and the infrastructure and processes needed to launch and integrate an AI product.

This week we welcome Edo Liberty, Founder & CEO of Pinecone, the vector database that receives 10,000+ sign-ups a day.

Today we're joined by the "Godfather of Cloud Computing" Amr Awadallah for a conversation on LLM powered search, AI hallucinations, and more.

We're joined by Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners and one of the leading investors in AI, ML, and data to talk about the startup landscape, LLMs, and more.

AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox joined FirstMark Managing Partner, Matt Turck for Data Driven NYC! AssemblyAI is the fastest way to build with AI for audio. With a simple API, get access to production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech. AssemblyAI has raised $63M+.

William Falcon, Founder of Lightning AI joins Matt Turck for a conversation on pytorch, LLaMAs, the future of large language models, and more.