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 ...

Interview: Databricks EMEA CTO on the company’s global expansion in challenging times

Dael Williamson, EMEA CTO at Databricks joined the company in 2023 tasked with running Northern Europe, including the Nordics, Benelux, UK and Ireland. Williamson has overseen a time of rapid growth ...
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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 ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...