Databricks simply snatched up one other AI firm.
This week, knowledge analytics big introduced a $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a startup constructing an open-source various to AWS Aurora Postgres. It’s the newest in a spree of high-profile buys, becoming a member of MosaicML and Tabular, as Databricks positions itself because the place to construct, deploy, and scale AI-native purposes.
Right now, on Trendster’s Fairness podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha unpack the Databricks–Neon deal, the place Neon’s serverless Postgres tech suits into the bigger imaginative and prescient, and whether or not $1 billion nonetheless counts as “some huge cash” today (spoiler: Kirsten and Anthony are on the fence).
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