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Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. [1] [4] The company provides a cloud-based platform to help enterprises build, scale, and govern data and AI, including generative AI and other machine learning models.
Ali Ghodsi (born December 1978) [3] is a Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur [4] of Persian origin, specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks [5] [6] [7] and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. He coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos [8] and Apache Spark ...
In 2013, along with Matei Zaharia and other key Spark contributors, Xin co-founded Databricks, a venture-backed company based in San Francisco that offers data platform as a service, based on Spark. In 2014, Xin led a team of engineers from Databricks to compete in the Sort Benchmark and won the 2014 world record in Daytona GraySort using Spark ...
Feb.03 -- Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi discusses his company's $28B valuation and the growth of data management companies. He speaks with Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
The company is being closely watched as one of the year’s top IPO prospects. And, as Fortune can report exclusively, Databricks is acquiring Einblick, an AI-focused data platform. It’s the ...
(Reuters) -Databricks, a data analytics platform using artificial intelligence, is in discussions with T. Rowe Price about a new funding round that would value the company at $43 billion ...
In November 2014, Spark founder M. Zaharia's company Databricks set a new world record in large scale sorting using Spark. [35] [33] Spark had in excess of 1000 contributors in 2015, [36] making it one of the most active projects in the Apache Software Foundation [37] and one of the most active open source big data projects.
Stoica was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Conviva in 2006, [24] a company that came out of the End System Multicast project at CMU. In 2013 he co-founded Databricks , serving as its chief executive until being replaced by Ali Ghodsi in January 2016, when he became executive chairman.