Databricks raises $5B at a $190B valuation, up 42% in six months
Coatue led the round. Run-rate revenue passed $7B with 80%+ growth. But the multiple expanded faster than the business.
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Author: Rundowns AI Desk
AI scaling laws: has bigger stopped meaning better?
The curves have not broken. The recipe changed twice, the spending moved to inference, and the data stock has a date on it.
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Context windows explained: what a million tokens actually changes
Advertised context and usable context are not the same number. What a million-token window actually buys you, and what it does not.
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What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and When Do You Need It?
How retrieval-augmented generation works, the two places it breaks, and when long context or a plain SQL query would serve you better.
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How to Write Better AI Prompts: 12 Techniques That Actually Work
Twelve prompting techniques that have an actual mechanism behind them. And how to tell when prompting has hit its ceiling.
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