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Databricks Targets AI Database Market with $1B in New Funding

CEO Ali Ghodsi: 'There's a new user. The user is not human.'

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John Foley
Aug 26, 2025
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Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, including 18 years at InformationWeek, who also worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. Connect with me on LinkedIn.

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I’ve been on the road for the past two weeks, first in Salt Lake City on business, then to Dublin for a visit. While in Ireland, I took the train to Limerick to see The Saw Doctors, a favorite band that has been playing its unique style of Irish folk-rock since 1986. Remember the year because I will to come back to it.

[As a break from the routine, I’ve included below a music video of The Saw Doctors that was released just last year. It’s a good soundtrack that was filmed in the Irish countryside. I hope it brings a smile.]

The same day I landed back in New York, Databricks announced it had raised another $1 billion, an investment that will go toward its recently unveiled database system, Lakebase, and its new agent-building platform, Agent Bricks.

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