Data + AI 2024 keynote
Ali Ghodsi · Jun 12, 2024 · 28m · San Francisco, California
Summary
Ghodsi laid out the data intelligence platform: an open lakehouse where formats and governance stop locking data to one vendor, plus AI that understands a company's own data. The week's news included the Tabular acquisition to unify Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, open-sourcing Unity Catalog, and all of Databricks going serverless.
Key themes: Data platforms, Open source, Governance · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Databricks confirmed it is acquiring Tabular, founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg12:31
- 2Delta Lake UniForm, which serves Delta tables as Iceberg too, was announced as GA that week13:33
- 3Databricks said it is open-sourcing Unity Catalog, its governance layer15:59
- 4Data intelligence means the platform understands company-specific jargon so anyone can ask questions of the data20:53
- 5All of Databricks becomes available serverless from July 1, and future products may be serverless only24:19
Announced
1 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Tabular acquisitionThe company behind Apache Iceberg, to unify Iceberg and Delta | Announced |
| Delta Lake UniFormOne table readable as Delta and Iceberg | GA |
| Unity Catalog open sourceGovernance catalog open-sourced | Announced |
| Serverless for all of DatabricksServerless compute across the platform from July 1 | Coming |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6dt7eJ3cMs
- Ali GhodsiCo-founder and CEO, Databricks
Companies named: Tabular, Databricks
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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