person
Ali Ghodsi
Databricks co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; co-creator of Apache Spark. Adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Acquired MosaicML in 2023, integrating LLM training into Databricks' product.
current Co-founder, CEO, Databricks; Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues every enterprise will need to build custom AI on its own data; closed APIs are a temporary architecture and the durable form is open-source models trained against private data.
The future of enterprise AI is custom models trained on the company's own data. That requires open foundation models you can adapt, not closed APIs you have to depend on.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.