This post originally appeared on the Hyperbolic Medium blog on May 23rd, 2024

We’re excited to share that prominent computer scientist and engineer Reynold Xin has joined our team of Advisors. He is co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks, the data and AI company. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform simplifies, unifies, and democratizes data, analytics, and AI for more than 10,000 organizations worldwide. With his extensive expertise in the field of data and AI, Reynold is adding significant intellectual horsepower to our already impressive group of advisors.

Reynold started working on open source projects during his doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. He is known for his work on Apache Spark, the top open-source project in data science and data engineering. As a top contributor to the project, Reynold spearheaded much of the foundational innovations in the project. He later cofounded Databricks together with the rest of the team that originally created Spark.

"Access to compute remains one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI. Hyperbolic Labs is building the Open-Access AI Cloud to make high-performance GPU infrastructure easier to access, scale, and use. I’m inspired by the team’s commitment to openness and excited to support the vision. "

Reynold XinCo-founder of Databricks

Reynold’s experience building and scaling Databricks gives him a rare perspective on what it takes to turn complex infrastructure into products developers trust. His work commercializing open-source technologies and leading large-scale technical teams will be invaluable as Hyperbolic builds reliable, accessible compute infrastructure for the next generation of AI companies.

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