Quotient Buy Brings Lifelong Learning to Databricks AI

Data integration and management giant Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, bringing continuous evaluation and reinforcement learning to its Genie and Agent Bricks AI tools - as well as Genie Code, a new agent launched today.

Headquartered in San Francisco with more than 30 offices around the globe, the firm helps more than 20,000 organizations worldwide to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. A series of huge funding rounds have helped the company's accelerated growth and brough its valuation to around $134 billion. Its unified Data Intelligence Platform includes the products Agent Bricks, Genie, Lakebase, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

Quotient was built by former GitHub Copilot quality improvement engineers. The software monitors agent behavior in production to detect issues such as hallucinations, reasoning failures and incorrect tool use, and generates signals that drive continual monitoring and performance improvement, helping teams to quickly gain insight into the root cause of failures. Databricks says combining this tech with its own AI research and platform will allow customers to deploy AI agents that not only run in production, but become 'more accurate, reliable and specialized over time.'

Genie is an AI agent that lets any employee chat with and get insights from their data, while Agent Bricks helps companies build and scale high-quality agents on their data. The new Genie Code is an autonomous AI agent that helps data teams plan, build, and run data engineering, machine learning, and analytics workflows.

The firm is online at www.databricks.com . Pictured is Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO.