Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

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InfoQ

Databricks Introduces Lakebase, a PostgreSQL Database for AI Workloads

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Space.com

Comet C/2024 E1 Wierzchos makes its closest approach to Earth tomorrow: Here's what you need to know

The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...
CNBC

Databricks completes $5 billion funding round at $134 billion valuation

Databricks said it raised $5 billion in funding and $2 billion in new debt capacity at a $134 billion valuation. The company also said its annualized revenue exceeded $5.4 billion for the January ...
VentureBeat

Databricks' serverless database slashes app development from months to days as companies prep for agentic AI

Five years ago, Databricks coined the term 'data lakehouse' to describe a new type of data architecture that combines a data lake with a data warehouse. That term and data architecture are now ...
IEEE

Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs for Multi-turn Text-to-SQL with Multiple Question Types

Abstract: Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved text-to-SQL systems. However, most datasets and LLM-based methods tend to focus narrowly on SQL generation, ...
InfoWorld

Databricks says its Instructed Retriever offers better AI answers than RAG in the enterprise

Databricks says Instructed Retriever outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.
GitHub

Pandas to_sql() method fix for Databricks

Fix for the Pandas to_sql() dataframe method that fails when we try pushing more than 255 values to a Databricks table. I also changed the way the source dataframe gets broken up into chunks, since I ...
The Business Journals

Databricks' valuation skyrockets after massive funding round that will let employees cash out. Is an IPO next?

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Wall Street Journal

Databricks Is Raising Funds at $134 Billion Valuation

Databricks is raising over $4 billion in Series L funding that would value the data-analytics and artificial-intelligence software company at $134 billion, an increase of 34% from its last funding ...
Inc

What AI Bubble? Databricks Is in Talks to Fundraise at a $134 Billion Valuation

As everyone from OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman to armchair economists debate whether we’re in an AI bubble, Databricks’ latest fundraising effort suggests at least some investors are still willing to ...