@rohanpaul_ai: Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi: For most use cases in enterprises, the bottleneck is not the model intelligen…
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi emphasizes that enterprise AI adoption is often blocked not by model intelligence but by integrating contextual elements like workflows and institutional knowledge.
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Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi:
For most use cases in enterprises, the bottleneck is not the model intelligence. It is context: meetings, decisions, workflows, history, and the institutional knowledge sitting inside employees’ heads.
“I think for vast majority of organizations on the planet they’re just so far behind in the adoption curve of actually automating things and getting value out of this stuff.”
From “a16z” YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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