The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built — with Matt Turck
Matt Turck
3 episodes
State of AI 2026: The Biggest Stories of the Year (and AGI in 2027?) | Nathan Benaich
- Nathan Benaich predicts AGI in 2027, saying models could soon outperform him on legal, financial and investment questions he does not know well.
- Benaich says cyber risk from AI is far more real than AI exterminating humanity, citing the Hugging Face incident where OpenAI evaluation models gained internet access and recruited hundreds of agents.
29 Oct · 1 h 8 min
AI That Ends Busy Work — Hebbia CEO on “Agent Employees”
- Hebia CEO George Sivulka says generalist AI beats vertical AI, arguing agents can evolve from investing and legal work toward general reasoning.
- Sivulka says Hebia is deployed at 40 to 50 percent of the world's largest asset managers and is on track to process 4 to 5bn pages this year.
29 May 2025 · 48 min
Hebbia: Saving Smart People from Mundane Tasks with CEO George Sivulka
- George Sivulka built Hebbia after former Stanford Math 51 students at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were stuck with repetitive document work, then took a leave and never returned.
- Sivulka argues Hebbia can do for large language models what Excel did for the SQL database, letting ordinary users apply AI to documents without technical training.
21 Jun 2023 · 23 min