LOTS of alpha in this pod: - Why Databricks beat Snowflake (! a straight answer!) - Why everyone is building a metaharness now - Why the @ne…

LOTS of alpha in this pod: - Why Databricks beat Snowflake (! a straight answer!) - Why everyone is building a metaharness now - Why the @neondatabase made so much sense (so much @nikitabase glazing its not even funny) - How LTAP solves the HTAP dream I discussed with @ankrgyl in our @braintrust pod - What happened to @MosaicML + DBRX - How to maintain research/startup culture in a $175B megacorp - What's more important knowledge/experience in the race to the agent cloud: databases, operating systems, or.... networking! very honored to be invited to @Data_AI_Summit to interview two of the top people in our industry and somehow be able to jam on everything from the @bennstancil modern data stack theme to @alighodsi's amazing keynote aura Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks https://www.latent.space/p/databricks @databricks cofounders @matei_zaharia and @rxin explain why Databricks is moving into the infrastructure layer for enterprise agents, how Omnigent creates a s…

Source: Swyx (X) | 2026-06-24