Databricks Acquires Lilac to Strengthen Data Quality for Generative AI
March 19, 2024
Databricks has acquired Boston-based Lilac, an applied research startup that builds tools to explore, cluster and curate unstructured text datasets for generative AI workflows. Lilac's team and technology will be integrated into Databricks' Mosaic AI and data intelligence platform to improve dataset quality, monitoring, and preparation for RAG, fine-tuning and pre-training of LLMs; terms were not disclosed.
- Buyers
- Databricks
- Targets
- Lilac, Lilac AI Inc.
- Industry
- AI & Machine Learning
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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