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 ...

The explosive growth of interest in generative artificial intelligence has led to a belief among some tech industry leaders that the massive datasets and common access to information provided by ...

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...

Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it is buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. It is the latest ...

Venture investor Pete Sonsini, whose highest-profile deal is business software company Databricks, has teamed up with a pair of entrepreneurs in a new venture shop, Laude Ventures Management. Joining ...

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch. Back in ...