Databricks describes how its AI research team uses AI Runtime for agent-driven experiments
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Databricks says its researchers increasingly use agents to propose changes, launch parallel experiments, evaluate results and decide what to try next, instead of running every trial manually.
Training jobs for its AI Functions research workloads have grown 8x, and the company says launch latency and GPU reliability become critical at that scale. A Databricks post on X describes how the team uses AI Runtime to keep up with this agent-driven research.
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Databricks@databricksOfficialDatabricks researchers use agents to run AI experiments with AI RuntimeAIDatabricks says its researchers increasingly use agents to propose changes, launch parallel experiments, evaluate results and choose next steps. Training jobs for its AI Functions research workloads have grown 8x, making launch latency and GPU reliability critical. The post describes how the team uses AI Runtime to keep up with agent-driven research.

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