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Xin: Transcoding database rows to Parquet speeds object storage writes with zero compromise
“And as a matter of fact, once you transcode the data compresses better. So from those services writing to, for example, S three or other data lake, like object stores, you can actually write them faster because now they are now smaller. So there's no. Overhead…”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 36:50 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
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Xin: Every major analytics database engine in traction is a decade old
“Actually, every single database engine out there, especially on the analytics side, are kind of a decade old. Pretty much everything that had reasonable traction are about a decade old.”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 45:08 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
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Frankle: Dynamic data mixing during pre-training is effective for domain-specific models
“We've had some surprisingly good luck with this. We just released a paper on it. The details matter a lot and it really matters what you're trying to do with the model. But it's been quite effective for us depending on the setting. And certainly when we're thi…”
Jonathan Frankle Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 53:17 State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
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Frankle: Databricks model is uniquely trained purely on Shutterstock data
“So a lot of models have had Shutterstock data incorporated into them, but this is the only model I know of so far where it was, you know, exclusively and specifically trained just on the vanilla Shutterstock data. There was nothing else mixed in. You know, we …”
Jonathan Frankle Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 3:14 State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
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