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Matei Zaharia's path from Berkeley's Apache Spark project to AI-agent research
A post traces Spark's 2009 start at Berkeley through Zaharia's role in building Databricks and his return as a professor.
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A post on Berkeley's technology impact highlights Zaharia's work on Apache Spark as a PhD student and his role in founding Databricks with fellow researchers. It says he remains Databricks' co-founder and CTO while researching reliable AI agents as a Berkeley associate professor, including work on the open-source projects DSPy and GEPA.
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