(Reuters) - Databricks on Wednesday introduced an artificial intelligence assistant intended to help business users ask complicated questions about their corporate data in everyday language.

The Databricks Assistant, powered by LakehouseIQ, is now in preview. During his keynote Ghodsi touted the LakehouseIQ technology as a way to “democratize” access to data and analytics.

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks' record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of the VCs told TechCrunch.

Databricks, a non-public company, thrives on AI and data analysis via its Lakehouse platform. Though not yet IPO-ed, Databricks might go public post-market improvement, as per its CEO. Investors ...

Laude Ventures partners Pete Sonsini, Andy Krioukov and Andy Konwinski are hoping to find "10 more" $100 billion opportunities like Databricks and Perplexity. Databricks and Perplexity cofounder ...