Video · 2025-12-23 · 45m · 6 moments

AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview

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Claim

A 95% AI project failure rate is actually the sign of a healthy experimentation phase, not evidence that the technology doesn't work.

Arvind Jain reframes the widely-cited MIT statistic that 95% of enterprise AI projects fail as expected and desirable given the pace of experimentation.

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Arvind Jain: You hear these 95% of projects fail, but like you know, like that's that's that's actually what you want. Like you you like when you are actually experimenting with new technology, if if if all of all of your projects are failing, that means you didn't just not trying enough, you know, at the moment.

Example

AI agents can compress equity research report production from the 2-hour industry standard down to 15 minutes by autonomously gathering and synthesizing earnings data.

Ali Ghodsi cites Royal Bank of Canada's use of Databricks agents to automate equity research report generation, cutting turnaround from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

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Ali Ghodsi: The agent goes, gets the earnings report, gets all the previous earnings reports, gets all the competitors' earnings reports, gets everything that's going on in the market, does the full analysis, the news, everything, puts it all together and it can get the equity report out in 15 minutes from the earnings call. Industry standard is 2 hours.

Claim◆

The large language model itself has become a commodity — interchangeable like gas from any gas station, where price (or marginal quality) is the only real differentiator.

Ali Ghodsi argues that foundation models have become commoditized like gasoline, so competitive advantage no longer comes from which LLM you use.

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Ali Ghodsi: I think the LLM is a commodity. People are not saying that, but it is a commodity. Like and you know, when I took took econ classes, commodity was when it's interchangeable. Like you can get gas from this gas station, you can get gas from that gas station, it doesn't matter. Just compare price.

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Claim

Unlike RPA, today's AI felt like magic from the start — machines doing things like writing and understanding emotion that were previously thought impossible — which is why this technology, unlike RPA, won't fizzle out.

Arvind Jain contrasts today's AI with the earlier RPA hype cycle, arguing the current wave is fundamentally different because it produces genuinely surprising, human-like capabilities rather than brittle rule-following.

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Arvind Jain: When when we saw it first it was basically magic. And and we couldn't believe that this is a machine that is doing this work. Machines just simply cannot do these kind of things, you know, that we saw them do. Like writing on their own, um having emotion, understanding emotion.

Prediction◆

We already have artificial general intelligence by long-standing historical definitions — the goalposts have simply been moved, so the industry doesn't need to chase further 'AGI' to get value.

Ali Ghodsi argues that by the AGI definitions used in academic AI labs decades ago, today's LLMs already qualify as AGI, and the industry should focus on deploying that intelligence rather than chasing superintelligence.

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Ali Ghodsi: I think we have AGI. I think we have artificial general intelligence. We really have it. We absolutely have it... It's like anyone who says we need to get to AGI, that's like it's it's a it's false premise to start with. We already have AGI.

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Prediction

Glean's future is to become a fully privileged, personal AI companion for every employee in every company, one that proactively knows their work life and handles tasks before being asked.

Arvind Jain lays out Glean's long-term vision: a confidential, deeply personal AI companion for every employee that understands their entire work context and proactively completes tasks.

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Arvind Jain: We want Glean to be this um very personal companion for every person in every company in the world. This This companion with which, you know, is is is you know, you have a very confidential relationship with this companion in the sense that whatever you ask this companion, you know, whatever communication you have with them, um you know, it's it's fully privileged.

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Highlight slides

LLM as Commodity: Interchangeable Like Gasoline✦ from: The large language model itself has become a commodity — interchangeable like gas from any gas station, where price (or marginal quality) is the only real differentiator.Ali Ghodsi's Commoditization Argument✦ from: The large language model itself has become a commodity — interchangeable like gas from any gas station, where price (or marginal quality) is the only real differentiator.AGI: Already Here by Historical Definitions✦ from: We already have artificial general intelligence by long-standing historical definitions — the goalposts have simply been moved, so the industry doesn't need to chase further 'AGI' to get value.The Industry Should Deploy, Not Chase✦ from: We already have artificial general intelligence by long-standing historical definitions — the goalposts have simply been moved, so the industry doesn't need to chase further 'AGI' to get value.

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