research @databricks — past: founder @quotientai, engineer @githubcopilot, @cohere_labs, @quantopian — Tico 🇨🇷 & Bostonian 🇺🇸
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super excited to announce i’ve moved to New York City! my first 6 months @databricks have been awesome and it’s finally time to join up with my team in the NYC office
send recs :)
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
Databricks is investing in New York for the long haul. Very excited to continue growing our AI research lab in NYC, now one of the largest in the city!
New York is becoming one of Databricks’ biggest AI hubs. 🗽
We’re expanding at 5 Bryant Park to ~120,000 square feet across five floors, including a dedicated Engineering and Research floor.
With teams building technologies behind Genie, Unity Gateway and CustomerLake, our momentum in NYC is only growing.
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
New York is becoming one of Databricks’ biggest AI hubs. 🗽
We’re expanding at 5 Bryant Park to ~120,000 square feet across five floors, including a dedicated Engineering and Research floor.
With teams building technologies behind Genie, Unity Gateway and CustomerLake, our momentum in NYC is only growing.
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
🎉 Introducing Databricks AI Decide: make fast decisions on your governed data
Following the TypeSafe AI Jev launch, we’ve seen increasing demand for a fast, low-cost API that turns raw text into structured decisions. However, many of our enterprise customers are unable to use Jev due to data privacy and access concerns.
AI Decide is our enterprise-grade function for fast decisions on customer’s governed data. It is supported for batch use cases like processing millions of documents with SQL and for realtime applications like model routing through our REST API. Starting early next week, customers will also be able to govern permissions on the ai_decide function through Databricks Unity Gateway.
A big shoutout to @mattydtweetz @ivanzhouyq @nihit_desai @hanlintang for getting this new function launched in less than a week!
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
GPT-5.6 Astra just exploded Runescape bench scores, setting huge records on 10/16 skills. Huge outlier performance.
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i’ve only been in nyc for two days and am reminded how nice it is that people actually want to talk when they’re out
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like in boston too many people are super cozy and think it is a wild concept to go out to eat and then talk to the person next to you
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super excited to announce i’ve moved to New York City! my first 6 months @databricks have been awesome and it’s finally time to join up with my team in the NYC office
send recs :)
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other than work, here are some things i’m excited about in NYC:
comedy shows, okiboru (tsukumen), @_BrooklynFCw, prospect park (Ziggy is very happy), running through the city, no more driving, quick train rides back to boston, making new friends, reuniting with old friends and annoying @juliaaneagu in another city
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
Today, we’re pleased to share strong momentum across our business, including crossing $7B in revenue run-rate and achieving >80% year-over-year growth in Q2.
We also shared:
• >$100M revenue run-rate for Lakebase
• >$1.5B revenue run-rate for Lakehouse
• Closed $5B in new strategic funding at a $190B valuation
This new capital will fuel investments in Genie, Lakebase and Unity AI Gateway so we can help customers scale AI with greater context, control and choice.
Learn more: databricks.com/company/newsr…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2.
We also shared:
🚀 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase
🚀 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% year over year
🚀 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow
And we raised $5B in our latest fundraise.
We’ll use this capital to invest in:
1️⃣ Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents
2️⃣ Genie, our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data
3️⃣ Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs
@iamVictorDey shares more in @Forbes:
forbes.com/sites/victordey/2…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
📣 Excited to introduce OfficeQA Pro V2, the next generation of OfficeQA Pro!
It's built on a new corpus of 120,000 PDFs provided by the U.S. Treasury.
Frontier AI agents average 26% accuracy. More info below 👇
databricks.com/blog/introduc…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
Wake up babe, new benchmark just dropped!
📣 Excited to introduce OfficeQA Pro V2, the next generation of OfficeQA Pro!
It's built on a new corpus of 120,000 PDFs provided by the U.S. Treasury.
Frontier AI agents average 26% accuracy. More info below 👇
databricks.com/blog/introduc…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
We found that improving data agent quality also improves efficiency. Sometimes more is less: agents that take long, exploratory random walks are often less likely to arrive at the right answer.
We put Genie Code head-to-head against three leading general-purpose coding agents on 400+ real user data tasks.
Result below 👇
New research from Databricks shows that data agents can improve accuracy and lower cost at the same time.
We evaluated Genie Code against three leading general-purpose coding agents on 401 tasks distilled from real internal usage. Each agent used their own harness, the latest models from leading frontier labs, Databricks MCP, and had the same 20-minute task budget.
Genie Code was both the most accurate agent we tested and the cheapest, delivering a correct answer at less than half the cost of other agents. Genie Code achieved the highest accuracy at 76.6%, and the lowest mean cost at $0.55 per task.
The advantage came from context. Semantic search, persistent memory, and workspace understanding helped Genie Code avoid the inefficient exploration that drove more errors, timeouts, and higher costs for general coding agents.
databricks.com/blog/why-fron…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
We're raising funding at $188 billion valuation to double down on our AI strategy focused on three priorities:
1️⃣ Unity AI Gateway - our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs.
2️⃣ Genie - our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data.
3️⃣ Lakebase - our serverless Postgres database specifically for AI agents.
databricks.com/company/newsr…
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Freddie Vargus retweeted
We’re excited to announce that Databricks is raising strategic funding, valuing the company at $188 billion.
We’ll use this new capital to accelerate our AI offerings for customers, including:
- Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps enterprises govern and control the costs of their AI
- Genie, our AI coworker that turns business data into trusted answers and actions
- Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents
databricks.com/company/newsr…
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