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Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
In this special release episode, Matt sits down with Nathan Lambert and Luca Soldaini from Ai2 (the Allen Institute for AI) to break down one of the …
10 months ago
Intelligence Isn’t Enough: Why Energy & Compute Decide the AGI Race – Eiso Kant
Frontier AI is colliding with real-world infrastructure. Eiso Kant (Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Poolside) joins the MAD Podcast to unpack Project Horizon— a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Power is the new bottleneck, reasoning got real, and the business finally caught up. In this wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Nathan Benaic…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic)
Are we failing to understand the exponential, again?
My guest is Julian Schrittwieser (top AI researcher at Anthropic; previously Google DeepMind on A…
11 months ago
How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek
Season 2 Episode 61
What does it really mean when GPT-5 “thinks”? In this conversation, OpenAI’s VP of Research Jerry Tworek explains how modern reasoning models work in…
11 months, 1 week ago
Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic)
Season 2 Episode 60
Sholto Douglas, a top AI researcher at Anthropic, discusses the breakthroughs behind Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world's leading coding model—and why we mi…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Goodbye Excel? AI Agents for Self-Driving Finance – Pigment CEO
Season 2 Episode 59
The most successful enterprises are about to become autonomous — and Eléonore Crespo, Co-CEO of Pigment, is building the nervous system that makes it…
1 year ago
AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
Season 2 Episode 58
2025 has been a breakthrough year for AI video. In this episode of the MAD Podcast, Matt Turck sits down with Cristóbal Valenzuela, CEO & Co-Founder …
1 year ago
How to Build a Beloved AI Product - Granola CEO Chris Pedregal
Season 2 Episode 57
Granola is the rare AI startup that slipped into one of tech’s most crowded niches — meeting notes — and still managed to become the product founders…
1 year, 1 month ago
Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse
Season 2 Episode 56
What happens when an internal hack turns into a $400 million AI rocket ship? In this episode, Matt Turck sits down with Boris Cherny, the creator of …
1 year, 1 month ago