Databricks to buy Neon Starting an open source database for $ 1B

Data analysis platform Databricks He said on Wednesday that she agreed to obtain it neonStarting to build an open source alternative to AWS AURORA POSTGRES, for about one billion dollars.

Databricks said that obtaining the Neon technology will allow it to combine the system of database management without a server to start operating with its data intelligence services to allow its customers to publish artificial intelligence agents more efficiently.

Founded in 2021 by CEO Nikita Shamgonov and Heikki Linnakangas and Stas Kelvich, Neon offers a cloud -based database platform (With free and user -based plans) that allow developers to clone databases and inspect changes before going to production. The platform automatically expands the processor, memory, and storage according to use, and supports the branch-the isolated database of the test and development-as well as the restoration in a timely manner.

Databricks says these capabilities are perfectly suitable for the work burdens run by artificial intelligence agents, which work faster than human developers but require supervision often to control errors. Quoting the last distance analogy, the company said that 80 % of the databases “were created on the neon were automatically created by artificial intelligence agents instead of humans.”

“The era of the original applications that depend on the agent is to reshape what the database should do,” Ali Godsi, co -founder and CEO of Databricks, said in a statement. “Neon proves this: Four of every five databases are copied on the statute through the code, not humans. By bringing the neon to data data, we give developers after the servants who can keep pace with the speed of the agent, the economies paid to you, and the opengres community.”

Neon collected 129.5 million dollars, according to CrunchbaseIts investors include Microsoft Venture Arm M12, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, and prominent capital. Databricks, for its part, accumulated more than $ 19 billion in financing, and in January Close $ 15.3 billion financing with a value of $ 62 billion.

Databricks has not retired from dipping in its warfare because it seeks to take advantage of the artificial intelligence boom and put it as a higher service to create, test and publish AI models and agents. The company last June Data management company schedulingAnd according to what was reported for nearly two billion dollars, and in 2023 Buy mosaicmlAn open source platform for training large language models and spreading artificial intelligence tools, for $ 1.3 billion.