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How to make AI work in the enterprise | Ali Ghodsi Co-founder and CEO of Databricks

Ali Ghodsi · Databricks · Jun 17, 2026 · CEO Messaging Shifts

Databricks aims to make enterprise AI work by feeding organizational data, processes, and tacit knowledge as context to frontier and open-source models.

“If we just give the context to these very smart models that can solve those super hard problems, they'll be able to do amazing things inside of our companies.”— Ali Ghodsi

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi framed the central enterprise AI challenge as supplying organizational data, processes, and human knowledge as context to already-capable models rather than building new models. The message positions Databricks as the layer that operationalizes existing frontier and open-source AI for companies, but the remarks are high-level vision without specific announcements.

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