A day after Anthropic’s office push, Databricks jumps in with AI agents that never sleep
On Wednesday, San Francisco startup Databricks launched a new set of agentic AI tools that continuously analyze and organize the reams of data scattered throughout a business—a capability Databricks says will transform the way office workers do their jobs.
Key points
- The IPO, which could value Anthropic at $1.4 trillion, is being closely watched, with many in the industry hoping a strong debut on Wall Street will serve as a positive signal for the prospects of the broader AI industry.
- A separate “Ontology” feature essentially scans all the data within an organization—from management reporting lines to projects in various departments—so that an individual can quickly access information or run analyses.
- While AI has transformed the way that software programmers do their jobs, becoming an indispensable tool in the profession, the technology is still in the experimental phase for other business functions where the return on investment is not as clear-cut.
The product introduction comes a day after Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI models, released its own set of AI productivity tools aimed at corporate users.
Additional details
- Databricks, which is still a privately held company, raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation in August.
- So it’s always on,” Databricks CEO and cofounder Ali Ghodsi told Fortune ahead of the announcement.
- “I think we will weather through this storm,” he added, noting that the AI revolution is too big to be impacted by the revelations of the Nvidia CEO’s affair.
- Given the importance of Nvidia’s chips, and its financing, across the AI industry, there are fears of a ripple effect if he is forced to step down.
- Databricks’ Ghodsi brushed off the notion however.
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