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Databricks Is Making a Long-Term Play to Fix AI’s Biggest Constraint
At this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, the company announced two closely linked initiatives: a $100 million investment in global data and AI education, and the launch of Databricks Free Edition, a Read more…
Databricks One Reimagines How Enterprises Work with Data and AI
For all the progress in data infrastructure, most enterprises are still struggling with the last mile: enabling business users to work directly with data and AI without relying on technical teams. In his keynote at Read more…
DuckLake Makes a Splash in the Lakehouse Stack – But Can It Break Through?
DuckDB, the creators of the embedded analytics engine of the same name, have stirred the data world with a bold rethink of lakehouse architecture. The company has unveiled DuckLake, a new open table format designed to si Read more…
Databricks and KPMG Invest in LlamaIndex to Unlock Scalable Enterprise AI
Databricks and KPMG have made minority equity investments in LlamaIndex, a platform for agentic document workflows. These investments aim to accelerate the development and adoption of LlamaIndex’s flagship products, in Read more…
Databricks Broadens Data Integration Capabilities with Launch of Lakeflow Connect
Databricks has announced the general availability of Lakeflow Connect, a tool that enables no-code data ingestion from SaaS applications and databases. As part of the launch, the company has introduced connectors fo Read more…
Prophecy 4.0 Offers Fully Governed Self-Service Data Prep for Databricks SQL
In 2024, data integration company Prophecy unveiled its AI Copilot for Databricks, marking a significant step forward in data transformation. Leveraging the power of GenAI, the tool enabled business users and analysts to Read more…
Confluent and Databricks Join Forces to Bridge AI’s Data Gap
Enterprise data is scattered across various platforms in different formats across diverse data streams and repositories. This complexity makes it challenging to connect operational and analytical systems, which often rem Read more…
Databricks Acquires AI-Driven BladeBridge to Simplify Data Migrations
Databricks has expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of BladeBridge, a startup specializing in enterprise data warehouse migration solutions. The acquisition aims to enable businesses to easily transition from over Read more…
Databricks Unveils LakeFlow: A Unified and Intelligent Tool for Data Engineering
Data engineering is a cornerstone for the democratization of data and AI. However, it faces significant challenges in the form of complex and brittle connectors, difficulty in integrating data from disparate and often pr Read more…
Databricks Announces Major Updates to Its AI Suite to Boost AI Model Accuracy
Last year in December, Databricks, a leading provider of data intelligence and AI solutions, announced a new suite of tools to get GenAI applications to production using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Since then, Read more…
Databricks Acquires Team Behind AI Startup Einblick
Databricks, one of the leading data lakhouse providers, continues its shopping spree by acquiring the team behind the natural language data science notebook Einblick. The Einblick team has spent the last four years b Read more…
Proactive CIOs Embrace Generative AI Despite Risks: MIT and Databricks Report
A new report from MIT Technology Review Insights and Databricks found the most proactive CIOs are decisively embracing generative AI as part of an enterprise-wide strategy, despite its risks. “The Great Acceleration Read more…
Databricks’ $1.3B MosaicML Buyout: A Strategic Bet on Generative AI
Databricks is the latest company to place a large bet – to the tune of $1.3 billion – on generative AI. On the first day of its sold-out Data + AI Summit, the company announced a definitive agreement for the acquisit Read more…
Databricks Enhances Lakehouse Governance with Okera Acquisition and Immuta Investment
Databricks is bolstering the data governance capabilities of its lakehouse platform with a new acquisition and investment. The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the data governance firm Okera for Read more…
ChatGPT Dominates as Top In-Demand Workplace Skill: Udemy Report
Online learning platform Udemy released its Q1 Workplace Learning Index that found ChatGPT is currently the most in-demand workplace skill in the U.S. and globally. The quarterly report highlights skills that are gain Read more…
Hugging Face and Databricks Streamline Dataset Creation with Spark
Databricks and Hugging Face have unveiled a new integration that will allow users to create a Hugging Face dataset from an Apache Spark dataframe. Databricks has written and committed these Spark changes to the Huggin Read more…
Databricks Bucks the Herd with Dolly, a Slim New LLM You Can Train Yourself
Databricks is getting into the large language model (LLM) game with Dolly, a slim new language model that customers can train themselves on their own data residing in Databricks’ lakehouse. Despite the sheepish name, D Read more…
MIT and Databricks Report Finds Data Management Key to Scaling AI
A new report from MIT Technology Review, in association with Databricks, found that 72% of C-level respondents believe data mismanagement will jeopardize future AI success. The report, “CIO vision 2025: Bridging the Read more…
Databricks Scores ACM SIGMOD Awards for Spark and Photon
Databricks announced it has won two awards at the ACM SIGMOD (Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in the Management of Data) Conference in Philadelphia. Apache Spark was awarded the SIGMOD Sy Read more…
Databricks Ships New ETL Data Pipeline Solution
Databricks today announced the general availability (GA) of Delta Live Tables (DLT), a new offering designed to simplify the building and maintenance of data pipelines for extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes usi Read more…
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