Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Matei Zaharia, co-founder of Databricks, won the prestigious ACM Computing Prize. He is currently focused on AI research and believes AGI is already here but misunderstood. This highlights a leading expert's perspective on the current state of AI development.

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Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah, it was a surprise,” he told TechCrunch.

Back in 2009, the tech Zaharia developed for his PhD at UC Berkeley, under the tutelage of famed professor Ion Stoica, was launched into Databricks.

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Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

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