Published July 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
TechCrunch
Jul 18, 2026, 6:00 AM
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
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