Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already'

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
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Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about $1 billion

Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. It is the latest big deal for Databricks, which bought artificial ...
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Meta backs Databricks as the data analytics startup inches toward IPO

Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. As the company that trains the popular Llama ...
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Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...
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India's digital businesses are innovating faster with Data + AI, says Databricks founder

India’s digital-native businesses are artificial intelligence (AI)-hungry and ahead of the curve from global peers when it comes to innovation with data and AI, said Ali Ghodsi, founder and chief ...
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Databricks is buying database startup Neon for about $1 billion

Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. It is the latest ...