From Fortune · Alexei Oreskovic · · 1m 40s
Databricks launches Genie as AI firms race for office workers
Databricks and Anthropic are both pushing AI tools designed to make knowledge workers more productive, signalling the industry's shift beyond software engineers.
In brief
Databricks and Anthropic are both pushing AI tools designed to make knowledge workers more productive, signalling the industry's shift beyond software engineers. Databricks launched Genie, an AI assistant that works in the background to help office workers, as the AI industry competes to expand beyond programmers into…
Databricks launches Genie assistant
San Francisco startup Databricks launched agentic AI tools on Wednesday that continuously analyze and organize data scattered throughout a business, aiming to transform how office workers do their jobs.
CEO claims tenfold productivity boost
Databricks CEO and cofounder Ali Ghodsi told Fortune the agents run in the background all the time. He said it has made him a ten times better CEO than he was a year ago.
“I personally use it every day. Every hour of the day.”
Anthropic releases competing productivity tools
A day before Databricks' launch, Anthropic released AI productivity tools for corporate users, including an AI-powered spreadsheet application competing with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
Knowledge work represents forty trillion dollars
Anthropic says in its IPO prospectus that knowledge workers performed more than forty trillion dollars in economic value globally in twenty twenty-five, with AI's potential to make them more productive.
Databricks valued at one hundred ninety billion
Databricks, still privately held, raised five billion dollars at a one hundred ninety billion dollar valuation in August. Anthropic's IPO, expected next week, could value it at one point four trillion dollars.
Ghodsi backs Nvidia CEO despite scandal
When asked about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair with a woman U.S. officials believe to be a Chinese spy, Ghodsi said Huang should continue as CEO and the AI revolution is too big to…
“I think we will weather through this storm.”
The essence
Databricks launched Genie, an AI assistant that works in the background to help office workers, as the AI industry competes to expand beyond programmers into broader corporate markets.
