Exploring Data Lakes, Model Training, and Ecosystem Ambitions

The potential of data lakes and lake houses to train and pre-train models like Rivian using time series data is highlighted. A new technology is being developed to aid in building and fine-tuning models. In terms of ecosystem ambitions, Snowflake aims to become an AI data cloud while Databricks focuses on becoming a horizontal artifact provider that can be used across platforms. Their strategy is to build analytic artifacts that can plug into various systems rather than aiming to be a full application platform.