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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted thisNext month marks 10 years of ClickHouse as an open source project and we are thrilled to welcome our community at our annual user conference today in San Francisco. To everyone who contributed code, filed an issue, or ran ClickHouse in production from the beginning: thank you. Today, we’re proud to share that ClickHouse has over 4,000 customers, $250M in ARR, and is trusted by teams like Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable, Vercel and many more building the future of AI. In this post, I cover the milestone, what we’re shipping, and what comes next: https://lnkd.in/gra_Pjzu
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted this"There's only two ingredients you need: hard work and luck." Anthony Woods, co-founder of Grafana Labs, is putting this mindset into another mission. As the co-founder of the AOJ Woods Foundation, he has one clear intention: give away the vast majority of his wealth within his lifetime. Not someday. Now. The foundation will focus on three areas: neurodiversity, mental health, and youth disadvantage. At the center of it all — making the education system more inclusive for every child. "We realise that we have been very fortunate and that's something that we want to share with the rest of the world." Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNV56M2t‘We’re not yacht people’: The couple giving away their ‘unicorn’ fortune‘We’re not yacht people’: The couple giving away their ‘unicorn’ fortune
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted thisThis video from Anthropic perfectly represents the new shape of the SOC, where agents accelerate detection and response workflows. Agents perform best when they can see internal company knowledge, multiple datasets, and broad security/IT tooling. That brings organizational context alongside the event logs, giving us the business-level justification for the signals we create in the SOC. As the interface to security workflows becomes prompt-based, there's real potential to scale who can collaborate on security and the volume of signals we monitor. Anthropic's security team recently shared a demo of what this looks like in practice. They use their system, CLUE, to orchestrate investigation and remediation, which gathers context from Panther, VirusTotal, and internal sources to assess risk and take next steps. Those findings close the loop, improving their overall security posture and remediating issues that surface along the way. The future is agentic! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gGD9a_-4
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted this> What if Slack was rebuilt to be AI native in 2026? It'll feel like your workspace **woke up**. Started building this last year, and finally 30 days ago, switched over from Slack to PromptQL. Super excited share early launch of what it looks like and what it feels like!
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisYesterday, 19 years to the exact date that I submitted my dissertation to complete the Ph.D. program at Stanford, I signed an agreement for my very first startup, SiftD.ai, to be acquired by Databricks. It's been an exciting roller coaster ride the last two years of working with Siegfried Puchbauer, Vishal Patel, and getting incredible support from many others, especially Gaurav Gupta and the Lightspeed team. Most importantly, it's been an incredible journey of learning and growth as we've explored the frontier of what agentic AI is capable of and how it best integrates with cybersecurity and other platform tools. Those learnings have convinced us that Databricks, with their long pedigree of combining data, compute, and machine learning, is in a unique position to harness the full potential of agentic AI, starting by reinventing the SIEM with Lakewatch. Our entire team is beyond excited to start our new journey with Databricks together.Gaurav Gupta reposted thisToday, we announced Lakewatch to disrupt the SIEM market. We also announced our acquisitions of Antimatter and SiftD.ai, bringing to Databricks some of the most impressive founders in cybersecurity: Andrew Krioukov, Michael Andersen, Steve Zhang, Vishal Patel, and Siegfried Puchbauer. Two career milestones: 1) First time announcing two deals in one release. 2) My 19th and 20th acquisitions in Corp Dev. https://lnkd.in/gkuG3rjDDatabricks Announces Lakewatch: New Open, Agentic SIEMDatabricks Announces Lakewatch: New Open, Agentic SIEM
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted thisHot take: your data strategy is more likely to derail your AI initiative than your model choice is 💀 Everyone's debating which LLM to use. Almost nobody is asking whether their data platform can actually serve it. In my latest post, I cover three converging shifts: real-time analytics, data warehousing, and observability — and why the architectural demands of AI (high concurrency, low latency, full-fidelity data) don't match what incumbent platforms were designed for. https://lnkd.in/gtmK3EGj
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted thisI gave a talk at AWS re:Invent on why enterprise AI keeps failing. Not because the technology isn't ready, but because we're building it wrong. Here's what I mean. Every chat-with-data product can technically work today. You can connect an LLM to your database, ask questions, get answers. The capability exists. But when a business user asks a loaded question with real impact, they know for a fact they can't trust the output. Even a human would struggle with that question, but at least the human signals uncertainty. AI just delivers a confident answer. This is the "confidently wrong" problem, and it's the real barrier. Not lack of capability. The issue is that AI never admits when it doesn't know something. And here's why that matters: you can only teach something when it says it doesn't know. Think about the humans you trust in business. They're not necessarily the smartest people in the room. What makes them valuable is their ability to pick up context, learn from failures, and signal when they're uncertain. That uncertainty is what lets you teach them. AI doesn't do this. So even when your AI is 90% accurate, you can't tell which answers fall in that problematic 10%. This forces verification on every output. Your team forensically checks results because one wrong answer costs more than ten correct ones. That verification tax destroys ROI. And you can't fix it through feedback because AI never signals that it needs help. The learning loop is broken before it starts. The solution isn't complicated. Build systems that explicitly signal confidence. Show users what the AI knows versus what it's assuming. When it encounters something unfamiliar, flag it. Let domain experts step in naturally. Capture that knowledge. That conversation between user and expert becomes the seed for improvement. The system learns through actual work instead of requiring some separate training process. This is what allows systems to scale beyond the 20-25 table limits you see elsewhere. When AI can admit uncertainty and learn from feedback, the scale problem becomes solvable. Without that loop, more scale just means more confident wrongness. The market thinks enterprise AI is failing because models aren't capable enough. That's wrong. Enterprise AI is failing because systems haven't been designed to communicate limits and learn from feedback. The fix isn't bigger models. It's humbler ones that know when to ask for help. --> Full talk linked in comments.
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Gaurav Gupta reposted thisGaurav Gupta reposted thisThis morning, Business Insider featured PromptQL among four AI startups reimagining how enterprises get insights and make decisions - a validation of a bet we made a year ago! The article frames this wave as “AI consulting startups.” The way I see it, it’s the next evolution of consulting - when the expertise, reasoning, and depth of a consulting team become instantly available to everyone through AI. And that’s only possible when accuracy scales. BI quoted what I told them was our “killer feature”: 🟢 “AI accuracy at scale without requiring messy data to be prepped or moved elsewhere.” No six-month data migration projects. No cleanup tax. Just AI that works on your data as it exists today, and learns your business on-the-go to tell you when it’s unsure. Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta says it best: ⏩ “We believe 95% of AI companies will fail, and history will show that hallucinations were a major reason why.” Unfortunately that’s not a prediction. That’s already happening. Read the full article in the comments.
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Gaurav Gupta liked thisGaurav Gupta liked thisNext month marks 10 years of ClickHouse as an open source project and we are thrilled to welcome our community at our annual user conference today in San Francisco. To everyone who contributed code, filed an issue, or ran ClickHouse in production from the beginning: thank you. Today, we’re proud to share that ClickHouse has over 4,000 customers, $250M in ARR, and is trusted by teams like Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable, Vercel and many more building the future of AI. In this post, I cover the milestone, what we’re shipping, and what comes next: https://lnkd.in/gra_Pjzu
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Gaurav Gupta liked thisGaurav Gupta liked thisAfter five years at J.Jill that went by faster than I can believe, I am embarking on a new chapter. And this chapter starts with a luxury that I feel incredibly fortunate to have: a summer completely off with my kids (and Dan O'Malley, though he’ll still be working!). My time at J.Jill was made truly remarkable by the team I had the privilege to lead and collaborate with. They are a rare mix: analytical, deeply creative, customer-obsessed, and entirely low-ego. Together, we tackled a massive amount of evolution—modernizing the brand, expanding our reach through inclusive sizing, hyper-growing channels like SMS, evolving our technology platforms, leaning into AI, and introducing new mediums like broadcast. I am incredibly proud of what we built, but even prouder of how we worked together every day. J.Jill is the first company I’ve worked for where I am actually the target customer. Because of that, I’m excited to transition into a new role: an enthusiastic loyal customer, benefitting from the continued evolution of the product, brand, and experience. My immediate focus is mastering the art of the summer break. Please send beach read and day trip recommendations my way, and let me know if you’d like to grab lunch or a drink. I am officially available!
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Gaurav Gupta liked thisGaurav Gupta liked this"There's only two ingredients you need: hard work and luck." Anthony Woods, co-founder of Grafana Labs, is putting this mindset into another mission. As the co-founder of the AOJ Woods Foundation, he has one clear intention: give away the vast majority of his wealth within his lifetime. Not someday. Now. The foundation will focus on three areas: neurodiversity, mental health, and youth disadvantage. At the center of it all — making the education system more inclusive for every child. "We realise that we have been very fortunate and that's something that we want to share with the rest of the world." Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNV56M2t‘We’re not yacht people’: The couple giving away their ‘unicorn’ fortune‘We’re not yacht people’: The couple giving away their ‘unicorn’ fortune
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Gaurav Gupta liked thisGaurav Gupta liked thisA joy to meet Satya Nadella at a time when we are seeing surging demand for ClickHouse on Microsoft Azure. And always fun catching up with Bipul Sinha.
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Gaurav Gupta liked thisGaurav Gupta liked thisThis video from Anthropic perfectly represents the new shape of the SOC, where agents accelerate detection and response workflows. Agents perform best when they can see internal company knowledge, multiple datasets, and broad security/IT tooling. That brings organizational context alongside the event logs, giving us the business-level justification for the signals we create in the SOC. As the interface to security workflows becomes prompt-based, there's real potential to scale who can collaborate on security and the volume of signals we monitor. Anthropic's security team recently shared a demo of what this looks like in practice. They use their system, CLUE, to orchestrate investigation and remediation, which gathers context from Panther, VirusTotal, and internal sources to assess risk and take next steps. Those findings close the loop, improving their overall security posture and remediating issues that surface along the way. The future is agentic! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/gGD9a_-4
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Data Volume Management
Issued US 8,682,930
Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also…
Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project.
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