Building Generative AI Capabilities with Databricks as a Foundational AI Platform

Databricks launched Lakehouse AI in 2023 as a unified capability encompassing Data warehouse, Lakehouse, Machine learning, and Generative AI as depicted below. This article briefly introduces Databricks AI capabilities and shares early feedback/observations based on experimentation with their platform, particularly for Generative AI.

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Since it acquired MosaicML in 2023, Databricks has expanded its data engineering, machine learning, and generative AI capabilities as an end-to-end solution with key offerings as:

• DatabricksIQ: a Data Intelligence Engine providing a natural language interface across the entire Databricks environment including Unity Catalog, dashboards, notebooks, data pipelines, and documentation.

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• Mosaic AI Gateway: a centralized service that governs, monitors, and provides production-level readiness with usage & security guardrails for accessing generative AI models. It is integrated with the Databricks ecosystem such as Unity Catalog for governance.
• Mosaic AI Model Serving: provides a unified interface to deploy, govern, and query AI models including…