Databricks, under CEO Ali Ghodsi, prioritizes India for investments to support startups with data solutions. The Mumbai infrastructure serves major clients, contributing to the company’s $43 billion valuation.
Databricks is serving Indian AI startups, such as Ola’s Krutrim, to overcome the challenge of low-resource training in the absence of quality datasets in Indian languages.“One of the things you can do is to create synthetic data. So if you only have a little bit of Tamil language data, you can produce a lot more and then you can train the AI on that synthetic data generated by AI.”“The other thing is called transfer learning. These kind of large language models don’t need a huge amount of data. If they already speak English, they don’t need a huge amount of data to translate. In India, the grammatical structures of the 22 languages are so close that it doesn’t need the same amount of data to learn a new language,” he explained.Besides, Databricks reported 80% revenue growth from India over past two fiscals and launched its data intelligence infrastructure to Google Cloud, Mumbai to serve growing demand among marquee clients such as Air India, InMobi, Freshworks, Meesho, Myntra etc.
