Category: Engineering

Many of our customers are shifting from monolithic prompts with general-purpose models to specialized compound AI systems to achieve the quality needed for production-ready GenAI apps. In July, we launched the Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation, now used by many enterprises to build agentic apps like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG. Today, we’re excited to announce […]

As Southeast Asia’s leading super app, Grab serves millions of users across multiple countries every day. Our services range from ride-hailing and food delivery to digital payments and much more. The backbone of our operations? Machine Learning (ML) models. They power our real-time decision-making capabilities, enabling us to provide a seamless and personalised experience to […]

eBay’s commitment to innovation takes center stage at eBay Open 2024, our 9th annual seller conference. This year we’re unveiling a suite of advanced tools and services designed to enable our seller community, streamline their operations, and connect them with passionate buyers like never before. A Year of ProgressIn the past year, we introduced several innovative […]

“Like most sellers, I’m always looking for little tips and tricks to work smarter, not harder,” said Ashley Moulder, whose eBay shop Millennial Mouse specializes in pre-loved and vintage fashion items.  Ashley isn’t just looking to improve her own workflow. She’s also passionate about sharing helpful information with other sellers so they can benefit as […]

eBay has unveiled another artificial intelligence-powered feature to save sellers time and effort as they create listings for their products. Using the new magical bulk listing tool, sellers can simply upload batches of product images, and eBay will generate draft listings with suggested categories, titles, and item specifics in a matter of seconds. After reviewing […]

Imagine a world where finding the right data is like searching for a needle in a haystack. In today’s data-driven landscape, companies are drowning in a sea of information, struggling to navigate through countless datasets to uncover valuable insights. At Grab, we faced a similar challenge. With over 200,000 tables in our data lake, along […]

We are excited to partner with Meta to launch the latest models in the Llama 3 series on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The small textual models in this Llama 3.2 release enable customers to build fast real-time systems, and the larger multi-modal models mark the first time the Llama models gain visual understanding. Both […]

In May 2023, Grab unveiled the Live Activity feature for iOS, which received positive feedback from users. Live Activity is a feature that enhances user experience by displaying a user interface (UI) outside of the app, delivering real-time updates and interactive content. At Grab, we leverage this feature to keep users informed about their order […]

We are excited to announce that Databricks now supports Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. This addition marks a step forward in enabling more efficient and scalable data processing, machine learning, and AI workloads on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Why AWS G6 GPU Instances? Amazon Web Services (AWS) G6 […]

Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are a convenient way to access services like Azure Databricks or Azure DevOps without logging in with your password. Today, many customers use Azure DevOps PAT tokens as Git credentials for remote repositories in Databricks Git folders (formerly Repos). Unfortunately, the use of PAT tokens comes with some downsides. In Azure DevOps, PAT tokens […]