Through Lakehouse Apps, Kumo.ai brings AI to data

Artificial Intelligence is a new way for organizations to operationalize their data.

With Databricks Inc.’s recently announced Lakehouse Apps, companies like Kumo.ai Inc. are building valuable machine learning and graph neural network capabilities that are accessible within Lakehouse, where data is stored.

“Kumo.ai is AI platform company — wMake AI as easy as SQL. And today we are a SaaS platform,” said Hema Raghavan (pictured), co-founder and head of engineering at Kumo.ai. “INo need to export data Deployed on a SaaS platform, It’s for training large models that we’re doing. Today’s announcement means When working with customers who have data Located within the Databricks ecosystem, Delta tables, for example, actually push compute. Data never leaves Databricks because it reaches Databricks. You can see the goodness of Kumo. Data never leaves the ecosystem. ”

Raghavan spoke with CUBE Industry Analyst John Furrier. Databricks Data + AI Summit, exclusively on SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio, theCUBE. They discussed the value of Lakehouse Apps from Kumo.ai’s perspective.

Facilitate the delivery of added value through the app ecosystem

From training language models at scale to running analytics and simulations, AI tasks often involve moving data in and out of data platforms, which is often risky, sensitive and It can be resource intensive. So what Databricks has done is create a platform that allows solution partners to attack specific pain points for their end users while mitigating security and governance risks, Raghavan said. increase.

“Kumo is a 1.5 year old startup with 30 people,” she said. “our The asset is to run graph neural networks About relational data.a Kumo is a real platform What I do best is developing algorithms. Having the best team for development in-house Bring it to the world without a second thought For security governance and all that comes with it, What makes a platform like Databricks a true enabler within that ecosystem. That way we can focus on what we do best. ”

With Lakehouse Apps, platform users don’t have to learn everything. Companies like Kumo.ai are in a position to provide expertise in specific areas, Raghavan added.

Below is the full video interview. Part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE coverage. Databricks Data + AI Summit:

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