Highlighting Data Intelligence with Databricks & Bonbon’s Reward Innovation | E2020

"We've gone very brute force, you know, 20 trillion tokens of data to train a model. That's 20,000 human lifetimes of text."

"Humans and animals actually use a lot less data to get much higher quality... This is not how, how humans work."

"Your brain runs on 20 Watts of energy. A mouse runs on 800 milliwatts and they do amazing things."

"They're facing pressures from big tech changes and cookie deprecation, which significantly impacts their traffic and revenues. This situation necessitates that publishers adapt rapidly to maintain their audience."

"I suppose, though, if we do then use AI to automate the legal industry out of most of its employment, we can then just take the lawyers and turn them into developers because they'll already be familiar with the style of communication."

"This is a programming languages topic that's been around forever, you know? Actually, there have been attempts to make it into code where I have strict syntactical requirements and things which actually enforces potentially correctness and verifiability."

"We built the first publisher rewards platform that gives consumers relevant rewards, access to unique content, simple and transparent data and privacy controls, and ultimately a better user experience."

"It's like just putting a new feature on your banking app may or may not have any effect on your business. It has to be something that your users want, that they get value from, and actually use your platform more or do more banking or do more loans or whatever it is."

"Through gamification, we can sort of sculpt traffic, directing back to your site to spend time on the things that you care about and ultimately reward them for that behavior and that activity. This reflects our commitment to tailoring user experiences to drive engagement."

"The perfect phone number is open phone. It's going to simplify all the communications you have in your organization. Open phone has rethought the modern business phone."

"Shared phone numbers are also awesome for things like customer support or when we run events, we like to have a field phone number."

"Open phone is super affordable; it’s just $13 a month. Twist listeners get an extra 20% off because they got you covered."

"We care very much about how AI is going to impact humanity, and there's a large component that's extremely mission-driven here. It shapes our approach to technology development and innovation."

"In today's venture market, every single hire you make has to be perfect, right? You can't make mistakes. You got to keep that runway as long as possible so that you can run more experiments and you need talented people to run those experiments and figure out how you're going to get product-market fit."

"Meta buying Databricks wouldn't be the strangest thing we've seen in the last 24 months, but it would be a top five thing."

"LinkedIn passed the 1 billion member mark, and think about that 1 billion members and 70% of LinkedIn users don't visit the other leading job sites. This is a phenomenal statistic."

"It's actually quite unprecedented how quickly the industry is moving, right? Two years is amazing to actually even get a POC going on this stuff."

"So now when new customers are coming in to the Databricks world, they're more interested in the Lakehouse product, data storage and BI, or is the AI now a leading vector?"

"AI has been something that's been front and center for Databricks. In fact, many people use Databricks for AI and then use other data platforms."

"You know, in today's fundraising environment, you know, ever since the market turned, VCs sort of, they behave similarly. And they'll sort of, the mantra now is like, I want to see revenue."

"We still have a sizable footprint of GPUs, but we are not building those open source models. It doesn't mean we're not doing other work that's on the internal internally facing side. Externally facing, we're running lots of inference. We're seeing inference kind of take off for these models."

"So being GPU poor to be rich, we actually do still a lot of fundamental research. So I don't see the world where we are not doing a lot of stuff on GPUs. We're just going to have more and more of this going forward."

"Now, on the mission point, this is a good thing to touch on because Databricks, of course, has an open source heritage, if you will—highlighting the importance of community-driven projects."

"TikTok, shorts, video, podcasts. There's a bunch of things that are growing in the world."

"Sometimes there's waves that are bigger than you, and if you catch them right, man, that's why I'm doing more thinking about live and shorts."

"I think whether something is open source or closed source is a business decision, but like, outlying it actually causes problems."