Databricks announced that it has welcome the Einblick team to the company. Einblick was founded by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University, whose research explored the boundary of machine learning, human-computer interaction, and NLP. The Einblick team spent the last four years building an AI-native collaboration platform that helps users solve data problems with just one sentence.
The rise of generative AI is now enabling a new generation of data systems: Data Intelligence Platforms. And data intelligence platforms will natively provide natural language interfaces that give non-expert users access to insights and information while also helping expert users move much faster. Data intelligence also helps users simply ask questions of their data platform and get detailed and high-quality answers.
Einblick’s team pioneered state-of-the-art techniques for translating natural language questions into the code, charts and models needed to generate insights. And this not only requires applying the latest generative modeling capabilities but also highly optimizing them for the data-related questions.
The next wave of data tools must understand more than general language to operate, and they need to understand the jargon and semantic information specific to each company. By combining with Databricks, the ideas behind Einblick can be more powerfully extended through deep integration with the underlying data catalog.
Launched in 2019 by Emanuel Zgraggen, Philipp Eichmann and others, Einblick was an early innovator utilizing the power of natural language as a foundational UI principle. The team also saw the potential for AI to enable non-technical users to glean advanced data insights from their early research experience at world class research programs like MIT and Brown.
The way Einblick integrates AI is directly into the authoring surface enables users to seamlessly transform their thoughts into comprehensive data workflows. And Einblick’s team built a sophisticated multi-step architecture that processes raw user input, enhances it with contextual information and breaks it into solvable chunks using SQL, Python, and higher-level logical operators. The team has been refining these AI systems and user experiences for several years.
KEY QUOTE:
“When we founded Einblick, our goal was to empower companies to do more with data, by creating the easiest and most collaborative data platform. Today marks a significant milestone as we join forces with Databricks to further our mission. I am thrilled to embark on this new journey with a company whose mission is to simplify and democratize data and AI.”
— Emanuel Zgraggen, CEO and co-founder of Einblick
