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The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

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The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck, is a series of conversations with leaders from across the Machine Learning, AI, & Data landscape hosted by leading AI & data investor and Partner at FirstMark Capital, Matt Turck.

Episodes

Diffblue: AI For Code Testing with CEO Mathew Lodge

Today we're joined by Mathew Lodge, CEO of Diffblue, an AI platform that uses  reinforcement learning to autonomously test software. We chat about the "AI for code" landscape, the Diffblue platform, and why prompt engineering is not a thing. 

Oct 25, 202346 min

Moonhub AI: The On-Demand AI Recruiter with Founder & CEO Nancy Xu

Today we're joined by Nancy Xu, AI Investor and CEO and Founder of Moonhub AI, the AI recruiting platform helping companies shorten and speed up the recruiting process while also helping employers reach a more diverse pool of candidates. We dive into how the Moonhub platform operates, Nancy's thoughts on opportunities for AI startups, her journey as an investor, and interesting projects she has her eye on.

Oct 18, 202345 min

Dust: Secure AI Assistants for The Enterprise with Co-Founder Stanislas Polu

Today we're joined by Stanislas Polu, Co-Founder of Dust, a startup building Secure AI assistants for the enterprise. We dive into Stanislas's journey to founding Dust including his experience at Open AI, the path to generative AI adoption in the enterprise, and the rise of the French AI ecosystem. 

Oct 11, 202354 min

Imbue: AI Agents That Can Reason with CEO Kanjun Qiu

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.

Oct 04, 202345 min

Deepset AI: NLP For The Enterprise with CEO Milos Rusic

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.

Sep 06, 202346 min

Hippocratic AI: A Safety-First LLM for Healthcare with CEO Munjal Shah

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.

Aug 23, 202349 min

You.com: An AI Chatbot to Search The Web with CEO Richard Socher

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

Aug 16, 202347 min

Weights & Biases: The Developer-First MLOps Platform with CEO Lukas Biewald

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!

Aug 09, 202352 min

Ada: AI-First Customer Service with CEO Mike Murchison

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.

Jul 26, 202347 min

Synthesia: Creating Video with Generative AI with CEO Victor Riparbelli

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.

Jul 19, 202344 min

LlamaIndex: Unleashing LLMs on Your Data with CEO Jerry Liu

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.

Jul 12, 202341 min

Dataiku: The Single Platform for Everyday AI with CEO Florian Douetteau

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 Blog Post Data Driven NYC YouTube Channel twitter.com/mattturck linktr.ee/mattturck...

Jul 05, 202349 min

Assembly AI: Generative AI for Speech Recognition with CEO Dylan Fox

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+.

May 10, 202327 min
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