AI Runtime
Databricks beta streams Unity Catalog data directly to GPUs
Databricks has released UCDataset in beta on AI Runtime, a native PyTorch data loader that streams Unity Catalog tables directly to GPUs. The company says it can cut…
Databricks adds NVIDIA's RFD4-Proteina protein design model to Genesis Workbench
Databricks is bringing RFD4-Proteina, an NVIDIA BioNeMo open model co-developed with the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, into its Genesis…
Databricks AI Research Team Reports 8x More Training Jobs with AI Runtime
Databricks says its own AI Research team has grown the number of training jobs 8x across its AI Functions workloads since it began using agents to run experiments on AI…
Databricks Cuts Qwen 3.8 27B Fine-Tuning Time 6x on AI Runtime
Databricks says it reduced the fine-tuning time of Qwen 3.8 27B on its AI Runtime from 7 hours 44 minutes to 1 hour 17 minutes, a 6x speedup. According to the company…