Ace Technology Desk – Artificial Intelligencer: By Krystal Hu, Technology Correspondent
What mattered in AI this week
We’ve heard plenty from CEOs about how AI will change everyone’s job. But how does it change the CEO’s own job?
Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, told me AI has made him roughly 10 times more productive than a year ago — useful enough that he now sits through far fewer meetings.
The tool behind that claim is Genie, an AI agent Databricks just overhauled this week and now pitches as an always-on assistant for businesses. Ghodsi uses it to stay on top of a $190 billion company with 12,000 employees. He showed me how, and it offers a glimpse of the future of AI-run organizations.
In a ChatGPT-like interface, he asks about spending trends among his biggest customers, which engineers are performing best, or how to think through a reorg, and get an answer within minutes. It also runs in the background unprompted, drafting briefing notes by pulling from things like his calendar.
With the “context layer” underneath it, Genie builds a working understanding of who every employee is and what they do, drawing on everything from how much code someone writes to meeting transcripts and sales records.
That also means Genie’s usefulness has a ceiling set by the organization, not just the AI: how much it can offer depends on how much data a company already keeps on its employees, and how willing it is to feed that into the system.
In this week’s issue, we talk to a former White House AI adviser who had his eye on Megaspeed — the company buying up Nvidia chips that’s now at the center of allegations involving itself & Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
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