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Ali Ghodsi

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Ali Ghodsi

@alighodsi

Databricks CEO & Co-founder, UC Berkeley Faculty

Berkeley, CA

cs.berkeley.edu/~alig

Joined January 2010

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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Feb 9
I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and now finished the year with accelerating Q4. The question is, why? Short
Databricks Grows >65% YoY, Surpasses $5.4 Billion Revenue Run-Rate, Doubles Down on Lakebase and...
From databricks.com
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Apr 12, 2023
Free Dolly! Introducing the first *commercially viable*, open source, instruction-following LLM. Dolly 2.0 is available for commercial applications without having to pay for API access or sharing data with 3rd parties. bit.ly/43oXmsy
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Mar 24, 2023
We are open sourcing Dolly, a ChatGPT-like model that can do instruction following, created for $30, trained 3 hours on 1 server. The secret in magical human-like interactivity probably lies in a small dataset.
Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
From databricks.com
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Jun 26, 2023
Big news: we've agreed to acquire @MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform. I couldn’t be more excited to join forces once the deal closes. databricks.com/mosaic-news
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Mar 27, 2024
Today we released an open source model, DBRX, that beats all previous open source models on the standard benchmarks. The model itself is a Mixture of Experts (MoE), that's roughly twice the brains (132B) but half the cost (36B) of Llama2-70B. Making it both smart and cheap. Since
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Aug 19, 2025
Databricks just signed a Series K term sheet at >$100B valuation to scale two flagship products: 🔥 Lakebase — serverless Postgres with true compute/storage separation 🧠 Agent Bricks — agentic framework with built-in reasoning guardrails for enterprise data
Exclusive | Databricks Raising Funds at $100 Billion Valuation
From wsj.com
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Nov 15, 2023
The founders of Databricks put together this strategy blog on where we think data platforms are headed in the future. We're moving Databricks quickly in this direction. This is very exciting and is the outcome of the MosaicML acquisition we did earlier this year!
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
May 14, 2025
I am super excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Neon, a developer-centric serverless Postgres company. The Neon team engineered a new database architecture that offers speed, elastic scaling, and branching and forking. The capabilities that make Neon great for
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Neon to Deliver Serverless Postgres for Developers + AI Agents -...
From databricks.com
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Mar 7, 2025
Excited to double down on SF.
Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉
@DanielLurie
Mar 6, 2025
Databricks signed a downtown lease and committed to hosting Data + AI Summit in SF through 2030, investing over $1B in the city. After considering Vegas, they’ve chosen to keep the conference here. We will keep working with business to drive our comeback! sfchronicle.com/sf/article/dat…
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Jun 4, 2024
Databricks to acquire @tabulario, a data platform from the original creators of Apache Iceberg. Together, we will bring format compatibility to the lakehouse for @DeltaLakeOSS and @ApacheIceberg
Databricks + Tabular | Databricks Blog
From databricks.com
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Dec 22, 2020
Excited that our #Lakehouse paper got published at #CIDR21: it shares our vision of the Lakehouse: a new type of data platforms that are completely open, have full support for #machinelearning, while supporting all traditional #datawarehouse workloads. cidrdb.org/cidr2021/paper…
Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Sep 25, 2025
Article
Databricks ❤️ OpenAI
Thrilled to share that we are partnering with OpenAI to bring their flagship models natively to products like Agent Bricks, allowing customers to use GPT5 with one-click on their data, securely. This...
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Feb 19, 2024
I think this will mark an important milestone for Gen AI. The spotlight has been on the capabilities of LLMs (scaling laws, leaderboards, etc). But it's now clear that LLM performance alone will be meaningless. You will need a Compound AI system to get the best performance out of
Matei Zaharia
@matei_zaharia
Feb 19, 2024
Interesting trend in AI: the best results are increasingly obtained by compound systems, not monolithic models. AlphaCode, ChatGPT+, Gemini are examples. In this post, we discuss why this is and emerging research on designing & optimizing such systems. bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/02/1…
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Ali Ghodsi
@alighodsi
Mar 30, 2023
Dolly LLM now on @huggingface, check it out! Cost under $100 to produce on a few machines for a few hours!
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