The Unsung Hero of AI
Looking back at the history of successful companies, a consistent theme emerges: the first mover often does social service, and the second one does business. As seen in WebCrawler to Google, Facebook to Twitter (now X), and Uber to Lyft.
This same dynamic is unfolding in the AI landscape. OpenAI is playing the role of the first mover, laying the essential groundwork for industry advancement, while Databricks is following the second mover, channelling its efforts into profit-driven ventures. Forbes’ latest Cloud 100 list of the sector’s best privately-held companies also resonates with this. “This year, AI is everywhere: New No. 1 OpenAI and No. 2 Databricks are supplying tools to help companies build AI features.”
In a move that could potentially hurt OpenAI, Databricks recently partnered with Microsoft to sell its new software that helps enterprise customers make AI apps for their businesses via the Azure cloud-server unit. With this, both Databricks and Microsoft enterprise cloud customers will now get to build AI applications leveraging its most trusted AI and data services on the go, thereby driving business as well as profitable endeavours.
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