Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: Stop scaring people about AI — the real bottleneck is context
a16z · youtube · 2026-09-19
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi joins a16z to argue models are already capable enough for far more enterprise work — the gap is context and institutional knowledge, which organizational ontologies can fill. He also weighs in on RSI, AI cyber risk vs speculative doom, industry self-policing, and how agents are reshaping infrastructure.
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