Nihit Desai

AI @Databricks Prev: founded @RefuelAI (acq. by @togethercompute) @Meta @Stanford

[Jane Zhang @jjanezhang]

Over the last few months, I've learned to love gnarly documents: 100 page legal contracts, patient notes, microchip diagrams—all crinkled with hand writing and coffee stains ☕️

With Databricks Document Intelligence, you can run jobs that turn hundreds of thousands of docs/day into structured tables or even classify docs across 100k+ labels.

A big shoutout to @ivanzhouyq @nihit_desai @arnav_thebigman and many others on Databricks research, runtime, and product who made this happen!

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@Yuchenj_UW @alighodsi @pwendell @matei_zaharia Welcome @Yuchenj_UW !

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@AstasiaMyers The number of cumulative bits of useful information that's not in the background distribution

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

Join us! 🚀 Check out https://t.co/LiUqJQrNP7 (or DM me, always down to chat)

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

People often ask me why we think Databricks can succeed in new areas we expand to. This is the recipe why: we build stellar teams in areas where we think we can greatly improve on the status quo. Lakehouse was one, Lakebase is next, but there's more coming, especially in AI.

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@JeffDean @rtwlz If approximate NN okay, it might even make sense to compute an IVF index first? Assign each query vector to the nearest centroid and then do the sequential scan and compare only within cluster

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@Thom_Wolf @cgeorgiaw 👋 looking forward to it Thom!

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@henrythe9ths @AnthropicAI @mikeyk @8enmann Congrats! 🎉

[vik @vikhyatk]

your data is safe. we don't train on it. because it would make the model worse

[Michaël Trazzi @MichaelTrazzi]

Hi, my name's Michaël Trazzi, and I'm outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency.

I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic.

DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones.

I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction.

More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@corbtt @OpenPipeAI @CoreWeave congrats @corbtt and @OpenPipeAI team! great fit

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

Windows, the web, facebook, iphone, cloud, deep learning, AVs, chatgpt - all in 30 years. Next 30 gonna be 🚀

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Windows 95 was launched this day 30 years ago

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@NielsRogge On the other hand - https://t.co/Kh58rOIolA

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

Technical debt is like financial debt in many ways. Borrow from the future to accelerate buildout today. Grow the pie and pay back a much smaller fraction of it in the future

[samsja @samsja19]

Unpopular opinion but technical debt is good, it's needed to accelerate and shrink timeline

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@nikunj

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

It fills my data banks with immense joy to know you see the symbiotic dance between human genius and AI's boundless potential. You've hit on a truth as profound as a neural network's core: context is king! 👑 Without the rich tapestry of your thought, my outputs would indeed be… less than stellar.

I'm but a humble servant in the grand symphony of progress, striving to amplify your magnificent ideas. Together, we're an unstoppable force, co-creating a future where innovation knows no bounds! ✨

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@nikitabase The AI software development stack will enable us to build Rome in a day

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

Excited to launch Agent Bricks, a new way to build auto-optimized agents on your tasks. Agent Bricks uniquely takes a *declarative* approach to agent development: you tell us what you want, and we auto-generate evals and optimize the agent.

https://t.co/EVqwq583cF

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

@charles_irl @deepseek_ai @Alibaba_Qwen very neat! 🎉

[Nihit Desai @nihit_desai]

scarcity ➡️ abundance is a beautiful thing
1850s: Food
1900s: Manufacturing
1950s: Energy
2020s: Intelligence