Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...
TMCnet

Kumo Launches KumoRFM-2, the First Foundation Model to Outperform Machine Learning on Enterprise Data, Scaling to 500 Billion Rows

Built on a new architecture KumoRFM-2 achieves state-of-the-art results across 41 predictive tasks and four major benchmarks, ...
InfoWorld

Databricks says with its new Databricks Apps platform, you can build tailored enterprise apps in 5 minutes

Every enterprise today is looking to get as much as possible out of its data and AI investments. But when building in-house apps, developers can struggle with infrastructure constraints and ...
InfoWorld

AI and machine learning outside of Python

In some ways, Java was the key language for machine learning and AI before Python stole its crown. Important pieces of the data science ecosystem, like Apache Spark, started out in the Java universe.