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Databricks acquires team behind natural language data notebook Einblick

The move is designed to further augment and built out Databricks' offering to enterprises as being the one-stop-shop for data needs.

But clearly, the move is designed to further augment and built out Databricks’ offering to enterprises as being the one-stop-shop for all their data storage and analysis needs, and to better compete with rival Snowflake, which has also been on an acquisition tear. “The Einblick team has pioneered state-of-the-art techniques for translating natural language questions into the code, charts and models needed to generate insights,” wrote Databricks execs Ali Ghodsi, Ted Tomlinson, Patrick Wendell, Prem Prakash and Cassie Miao in a company blog post announcing the acquisition. It leverages a sophisticated multi-step architecture that processes raw user input, enriches it with contextual information, and translates it into actionable insights using SQL, Python, and higher-level logical operators.

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