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 ...
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Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...

Databricks co-founder says, 'AGI is here already,' in new interview

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia said that artificial general intelligence, the form of AI that surpasses humanity ...
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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. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that ...