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Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise

aired Sep 18, 2026 · 68.0m
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Summary

As a business leader, there's a tragedy of the commons. There's one camp which believes that this actually is an engineering problem.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, think, including: If you want to stop, if you want to go slower, why don't you go slower?.

Key takeaways
  1. 01As a business leader, there's a tragedy of the commons
  2. 02For the first time ever, a company at scale last week said that they're moving from the frontier models to GLM
  3. 03Databricks CEO Ali Godzi joins A16Z's Martin Cassado and Sarah Wang to discuss what's actually holding back AI adoption, and why the answer may have less to do with building smarte
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