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Databricks spent $10M on new DBRX generative AI model
If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship?
“DBRX was trained to be useful and provide information on a wide variety of topics,” Naveen Rao, VP of generative AI at Databricks, told TechCrunch in an interview. Databricks says that it spent roughly $10 million and eight months training DBRX, which it claims (quoting from a press release) “outperform[s] all existing open source models on standard benchmarks.” Rao admits that DBRX has other limitations as well, namely that it — like all other generative AI models — can fall victim to “ hallucinating ” answers to queries despite Databricks’ work in safety testing and red teaming.
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