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

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Podcast: [The Neon Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-neon-show-862453)
Published: 2026-06-18T13:30:00+00:00
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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 Tur...

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