Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is beating GPT-5.6 Sol on coding and agent benchmarks, while being ~97% cheaper.
Another 4× reduction in KV cache size per token is super impressive. This is the era of open source AI.
Databricks will be bringing it to our customers soon!