MosaicML, from what I understand, was looking to raise at a $400M valuation earlier this year. That led into conversations w/ DB and its acquisition. It's also an enormous outcome for its investors: Lux, Maverick, Future, Playground Global, and others.
BIG TECH
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Databricks Acquires MosaicML to Lower ML Model Development Costs
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Databricks, meanwhile, wants to build tools to enable companies to build machine learning models from scratch and serve them. That end-to-end is reinforced by its acquisition of MosaicML, which aimed to bring down the cost of building custom ML models from scratch for companies.
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Snowflake and Databricks Intensify Rivalry with Major Moves
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Snowflake and Databricks' rivalry is entering a new chapter as they both made substantial announcements this week: Snowflake with a series of product announcements, and Databricks with its $1.3 billion acquisition of MosaicML.
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Massive Investment Wave in Foundation Model Companies
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The rate at which investors are ripping checks into money hoovering foundation model companies is making James Dyson envious.
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Industrial Companies Under Cyberattack: Key Security Lessons
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Bradley Rotter’s Maverick Approach to AI Investment
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Women Innovating Tech: Leadership and Male Allyship
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Tenstorrent CEO discusses RISC-V strategy to challenge Nvidia
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@tenstorrent CEO @jimkxa talks to @ojoyoshida about #riscv, #opensource and the #tenstorrent roadmap. https://
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ExploreSAS Conference Las Vegas September 2026
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4 days, 100 + sessions, 2.5k of your tech peers, coming up at #ExploreSAS in Las Vegas this September, SAS users! First mover discount rate through June 30. Save $500 off the standard rate http://
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ChatGPT Excludes Non-English Languages from AI Revolution
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#ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the #AI Revolution https://
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