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Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks

aired Jun 24, 2026 · 68.0m
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Summary

Mattia and Reynolds from Databricks, welcome to Lien Space. You have your Databricks Data AI Summit going on.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, yeah, think, including: Thanks for having us.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Yeah there were actually a couple of converging lines which I think is a good sign that you need something new So on the one hand there all the coding agent infra internally We hav
  2. 02And we saw all the sort of more advanced engineers like were building their own workflows with tons of agents and they were building their own UIs and stuff on top or even on top o
  3. 03And then the other one was like us building agents
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