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Matei Zaharia

  • Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Databricks
Berkeley
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CTO @Databricks and prof @UCBerkeley. Working on data + AI, @ApacheSpark, @DeltaLakeOSS, @MLflow, @DSPyOSS, @GEPA_ai, @Omnigent_ai.
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Introducing Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents

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By Matei Zaharia, Kasey Uhlenhuth
| Databricks
At Databricks, we use and build agents extensively, from coding with them at scale to shipping agent products like Genie. But even though the capabilities of agents have gotten much better, working with them feels clunky. As users, we often have 4-5 agents open at once (coding agents, Gemini search, etc) and spend our time copy-pasting text between them and Docs, Slack, and other collaboration tools.
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Databricks acquires Quotient AI to power AI agent evaluations

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By Xing Chen, Hanlin Tang, Matei Zaharia
| Databricks
Databricks is excited to announce the acquisition of Quotient AI, an innovator in evaluation and reinforcement learning for AI agents. Quotient helps enterprises monitor agent behavior in production, detect critical issues, and use those signals to continuously improve agent performance. As organizations deploy AI agents into business-critical workflows, they need reliable ways to ensure those systems perform as expected in the real world.
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Introducing Genie Code

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By Patrick Wendell, Matei Zaharia, Weston Hutchins
| Databricks
We are excited to announce Genie Code, the newest addition to the Databricks Genie family. In the past six months, agentic coding tools have fundamentally changed software engineering; Genie Code brings that same transformation to data teams. Genie Code can autonomously carry out complex tasks such as building pipelines, debugging failures, shipping dashboards, and maintaining production systems.
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