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AI company Databricks finds India on a different trajectory, invests more

Economic Times · 7m

San Francisco-based data and AI company Databricks is focusing on expanding its presence in India. The company is allocating a significant portion of its global investments to enhance its customer base, build engineering teams, and support Indian startups in training language models with quality datasets. CEO Ali Ghodsi stated that India is on a different trajectory compared to other regions in terms of economic growth, and he believes it will become a substantial part of Databricks' revenue. The company is also assisting Indian AI startups by leveraging synthetic data creation and transfer learning techniques to overcome the limitations of low-resource training. Databricks has experienced 80% revenue growth in India over the past two years and has launched its data intelligence infrastructure in Mumbai.