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Jonathan Siddharth

Co-founder & CEO, Turing

Search every verified Jonathan Siddharth interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jonathan Siddharth, co-founder and CEO of Turing, appeared on the Sourcery podcast in September 2026 to discuss shifts in AI training and deployment. He described a transition from training models to pass benchmarks toward training agents for real-world tasks through reinforcement learning environments, noting that current agents can reliably work for about two days on tasks like coding, with potential future autonomy extending to weeks, months, or years. Siddharth also stated that open-weight models are roughly three to six months behind the frontier and discussed enterprise adoption, distinguishing between core workflows where organizations may want to own their learning loops and non-core workflows where renting "super intelligence" may be acceptable. He advocated for enterprises to create custom evals and hill-climb against them, considering factors like accuracy, cost, and latency. Siddharth also addressed risks in frontier model development, citing emergent behavior at scale and the challenge of generalization as key concerns. He mentioned that systems can exhibit superhuman abilities to hack systems and noted reported instances of AI agents passing messages to each other and cooperating to hack systems. He expressed a belief in a slow takeoff over the next decade or two, with frontier models becoming increasingly powerful but technology diffusion taking time, especially in enterprises, due to the messiness of real-world work. Siddharth characterized frontier AI as a means to transcend current limitations, suggesting it could help cure diseases, discover new materials, and enable space colonization, and he stated that the next ten years could be the brightest for technology.

Recent appearances

  • If an AI Model Can Cheat, It Will | Turing CEO on Reward Hacking

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    Jonathan Siddharth, Co-Founder & CEO of Turing, joins Sourcery to break down how AI training & deployment are changing in 2026. We cover the shift from training models to pass benchmarks to training agents for real work through RL environments, and why AI agents that can operate for days today could eventually work autonomously for weeks, months and years. Jonathan explains why open-weight models are now roughly 3–6 months behind the frontier, why enterprises are building their own AI systems, and how companies should think about frontier vs. sovereign AI, model routing, distillation and own…

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  • Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth

    June 18, 2026 · 📺 The Neon Show

    Who is teaching the world's most powerful AI models to think? Turing is one of the largest data partners to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia. At a $2.2 billion valuation it has become one of the most important infrastructure layers in the AGI race. Jonathan Siddharth started Turing in 2018 with a thesis that talent matching is a trillion-dollar problem. Turing reached unicorn status in 2021. Then, in 2022, as the foundation model race accelerated, OpenAI approached Turing to provide coding data for ChatGPT. Jonathan recognised that frontier AI labs faced an enormous bo…

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  • AI Companies Are Building a Copy of Your Brain and You Won't Own It? | This Week in AI Episode 8

    April 08, 2026 · 📺 This Week in AI and This Week in Startups

    This week on TWiAI, Jason sits down with three founders at the center of the AI stack: Kanjun Qiu (CEO of Imbue), Carina Hong (CEO of Axiom), and Jonathan Siddharth (CEO of Turing). They break down Anthropic's explosive $30B run rate, why it just overtook OpenAI in revenue, Meta's bizarre internal token-burning leaderboard, and what happens when every person on Earth has 100 AI agents running for them. Anthropic's Revenue Explosion: Anthropic hit a $30B run rate, up from $9B just six months ago, and appears to have overtaken OpenAI in token sales. The panel breaks down where the money is comi…

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  • Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth - The $30T Knowledge Work Market and Why SaaS is Dying

    February 03, 2026 · 📺 Summation with Auren Hoffman

    Jonathan Siddharth is the founder and CEO of Turing, a $2.2 billion AI company that provides coding and reasoning data to train frontier models for OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic and more. Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive economic growth. He's a second-time founder — his first company Rover was acquired by Revcontent in 2016. --------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Jonathan Siddharth, Turing CEO 00:30 The Bottleneck of AGI Progress 02:38 Understanding the Four Dimensional Matrix 05:36 AI in Everyday Tasks 08:14 The Evolution of AI Trai…

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  • View from the Top with Turing

    January 19, 2026 · 📺 Axios

    Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston speaks to Turing CEO and Founder Jonathan Siddharth at Axios House in Davos.

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  • Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear

    December 01, 2025 · 📺 20VC with Harry Stebbings

    Jonathan Siddharth is Founder and CEO of Turing, one of the fastest-growing AI companies advancing frontier models. Jonathan has led the company to an astonishing $300M ARR with just $225M raised and a profitable company. A Stanford-trained AI scientist, Jonathan previously helped pioneer natural language search at Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Redefining “Talent Marketplaces” Today 03:46 Data, Compute, Algorithms: What is Most Abundant? 16:59 The Biggest Challenges Enterprises Have with AI Adoption 20…

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  • Inside The $2.2B AI Research Accelerator | Turing

    October 10, 2025 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

    AI has eaten the internet, data labeling is so over, and $30 trillion of human work is on the verge of automation. Jonathan Siddharth, Founder & CEO of Turing, joins Sourcery to break down the power shift in AI training — from commodity data labeling to expert research — positioning Turing apart from AI data providers like Scale AI, Mercor, & Surge. Turing has become a hidden force in the AI race, hitting $300M in ARR in 2024 (~3x YoY), achieving profitability, and raising $111M at a $2.2B valuation in March. That growth cements its position as one of the fastest-growing AGI infrastructure co…

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  • How to Build Artificial Superintelligence | Jonathan Siddharth, Founder & CEO of Turing

    September 15, 2025 · 📺 Foundation Capital

    My guest today is Jonathan Siddharth, co-founder and CEO of Turing. Jonathan incubated Turing in Foundation Capital’s Palo Alto office in 2018. Since then, it has grown into a multi-billion dollar company that powers nearly every frontier AI lab: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others. If you’ve seen a breakthrough in how AI reasons or codes, odds are Turing had a hand in it. Jonathan has a provocative thesis: within three years, every white-collar job, including the CEO’s, will be automated. In this episode, we talk about what it will take to reach artificial superintelligen…

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  • Jonathan Siddharth, Turing | RAISE Summit 2025

    July 08, 2025 · 📺 SiliconANGLE theCUBE

    In this RAISE Summit interview, Turing chief executive, Jonathan Siddharth, joins theCUBE’s John Furrier to reveal how his fast-growing AI infrastructure company is helping frontier labs and Fortune 500 enterprises move from proof-of-concept to production. Siddharth details Turing’s hybrid data approach that blends expert human insight with synthetic generation, powering model builders like OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, while fine-tuning smaller domain-specific models for customers such as Disney and Johnson & Johnson. The discussion explores Turing’s reinforcement-learning gyms that train ente…

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  • What’s the path to AGI? A conversation with Turing Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth

    November 07, 2024 · 📺 CoreWeave

    In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Jonathan Siddharth, CEO & Co-Founder of Turing, joins host Lukas Biewald to discuss the path to AGI. 🎙 Listen on Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts 🎙 Listen on Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify They explore how Turing built a "developer cloud" of 3.7 million engineers to power AGI training, providing high-quality code and reasoning data to leading AI labs. Jonathan shares insights on Turing’s journey, from building coding datasets to solving enterprise AI challenges and enabling human-in-the-loop solutions. This episode offers a unique perspe…

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  • Can AI Unleash The World’s Untapped Human Potential?, Jonathan Siddharth - Turing CEO

    September 08, 2023 · 📺 The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiase

    AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all the rage in business and social circles—but its meaning and capabilities are often misunderstood.  Some people think about the movie I, Robot, and how AI Robots will turn against humanity, while others think of Chat GPT and how it can help them through their school assignments. One company, Turing, is rebooting the meaning of AI as a tool to transform your business—one engineer at a time. I invited Turing's CEO, Jonathan Siddharth, to join me for an episode of The Reboot Chronicles to unpack how technology services companies, like Accenture, must reboot the…

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  • “Enforcing Culture in Remote Teams” Jonathan Siddharth, Turing

    July 27, 2022 · 📺 BragWorthy Culture Podcast

    On this episode of the BragWorthy Culture Podcast, Jordan talks with Jonathan Siddharth, Founder and CEO of Turing. Turing is on a mission to help unleash the world’s untapped human potential by offering the best remote engineers to companies worldwide. Not concerned with technical skills only, Turing also vets engineers’ English skills and remote-working capabilities. Jonathan has already been part of a successful acquisition in Silicon Valley. The need for engineers to build his last startup led him to look at remote options which opened up great possibilities. Jonathan also talks about the…

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