CNBC January 22, 2025
Key Points
– Meta has invested in data analytics software company Databricks.
– The two companies work together on Llama open-source artificial intelligence models.
Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor.
As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role in the artificial intelligence. Databricks works closely with Meta’s Llama team, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Ali Ghodsi, said in an interview this week.
The relationship goes all the way up to Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“We’ve discussed open-source software in the past, and he cares a lot about open-source models and Llama,” Ghodsi said.
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