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Who to Know: Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks

The three most valuable private companies in the U.S. have big reputations: OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic. But the fourth, Databricks, flies a little more under the radar. This company, which is currently raising funds at a valuation of $134 billion according to reports this week, is a quiet workhorse of the AI revolution. Databricks offers a platform where companies can combine unwieldy data from different sources, manage it easily, and train AI models with it. Its CEO, Ali Ghodsi, is a charismatic computer science professor who still teaches the occasiona

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