Databricks

Databricks to pay $100m for Arcion as it continues AI push

Databricks is set to pay $100m for data replication start-up Arcion. The acquisition is designed to make it easier for…

Databricks open-sources its Dolly large language AI model

In an attempt to open up its technology to a wider audience, enterprise software company Databricks has released Dolly, a…

Databricks makes its Delta Lake cloud data platform fully open source

Cloud data and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Databricks has announced it will contribute all the enhancements it has made to…

MLflow has Grown Up and Left Home: Machine Learning Framework Joins Linux Foundation

Databricks has donated its hugely popular machine learning framework MLflow to the non-profit Linux Foundation. The open source tool from…

Big Data Specialist Databricks Valued at $6.2 Billion in Fresh Round

It was only eight months ago that machine learning and Apache Spark specialist Databricks raised $250 million in a Series…

Databricks Gifts Its Data Lake Technology to the Linux Foundation

Machine learning unicorn Databricks has donated its Apache 2.0 licensed "Delta Lake" product to the Linux Foundation. Delta Lake is…

Automotive AI Hits a Speedbump: Pilot Projects Shrink, Deployment Falls

Just 10 percent of major automotive companies are deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) according to a major new study by professional…

Databricks Clinches Microsoft Backing, Plans European Expansion on $250m Series E

Databricks, the San Francisco-based data management and machine learning specialist, has secured $250 million in a Series E funding round…

Open Source Platform Aims to Democratise “Machine Learning Zoo”

Machine learning (ML) is hard and it's messy. It's hard to move models to production, due to a diversity of…

Databricks’ CEO Ali Ghodsi on Microsoft, “Mumbo-Jumbo”, and the Magic of Merging Data Teams

“We were just researchers who wanted to revolutionise the world by democratising machine learning” – The way he tells it,…