MosaicML Agrees to Join Databricks to Power Generative AI for All
We are excited to announce that MosaicML has agreed to join Databricks to further our vision of making custom AI model development available to any organization.
We started MosaicML to solve the hard engineering and research problems necessary to make large scale neural network training and inference more accessible to everyone. With the recent generative AI wave, this mission has taken center stage. We fundamentally believe in a better world where everyone is empowered to train their own models, imbued with their own data, wisdom, and creativity, rather than have this capability centralized in a few generic models.
When Ali, Patrick, and the other Databricks co-founders reached out about a partnership, we immediately recognized them as kindred spirits: researchers-turned-entrepreneurs sharing a similar mission. Their strong company culture and focus on engineering mirrored what we thought a grown-up MosaicML would be.
Today, we’re excited to announce that MosaicML has signed an agreement to join Databricks to create a leading generative AI platform. The transaction is subject to certain customary closing conditions and regulatory clearances, and the companies will remain independent until those reviews are complete, but we are excited about what we can do together with Databricks when the transaction closes.
Our flagship products will continue to grow. To our current customers and those on our long waitlist: this partnership will only help us serve you faster! MosaicML training, inference, and our MPT family of foundation models are already powering generative AI for enterprises and developers around the world, and together with Databricks, we look forward to going bigger with all of you.
Generative AI is at an inflection point. Will the future rely mostly on large generic models owned by a few? Or will we witness a true Cambrian explosion of custom AI models that are built by many developers and companies from every corner of the world? MosaicML’s expertise in generative AI software infrastructure, model training, and model deployment, combined with Databricks’ customer reach and engineering capacity, will allow us to tip the scales in the favor of the many. We look forward to continuing this journey together with the AI community. As always, please join us in conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn, or in our community forum.
We’d like to thank our board members Matt Ocko at DCVC, Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital, and Peter Barrett at Playground Global, as well as all our investors who have supported us through our journey.
Let’s keep going!
