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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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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