Quotesby GlyphAli Ghodsi quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder and CEO, Databricks · 10 quotes · latest Aug 13, 2026
- Enterprises don't just want AI that talks. They want agents working across their business that remember context, deliver accurate answers, and execute work without blowing through their budgets...
- Enterprises are moving from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing.
- If you're a CFO and AI can't tell you why margins changed, or you're a sales leader, and it can't find your next upsell, that's not an AI problem, that's a context problem.
- Most enterprise AI today is just guessing with false confidence. That is not good enough for business...
- Then agents arrived. In a matter of months, organizations effectively doubled their workforce, just not with humans. Agents write code, make calls, and run loops at a pace human teams never could.
- Security teams can no longer rely on manual workflows to outpace AI-driven attacks...
- We're moving from a world where data professionals are assisted by AI to one where AI agents do the work, guided by humans. We are calling this Agentic Data Work. It will fundamentally change how enterprises make decisions.
- Every piece of software in the world, every application, every workflow, every AI-generated line of code ultimately depends on a database underneath. Along the way, we’ve completely reinvented how applications are built, but the underlying databases have changed very little since the 1980s.
- With the right investment and the right tools, we will see more AI innovation in this next generation than all previous generations combined.
- Neon proves it: four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans.
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