Databricks' KARL agent uses reinforcement learning to generalize across six enterprise search behaviors — the problem that breaks most RAG pipelines.

By moving Cortex into dbt and Airflow, Snowflake is aiming to eliminate context switching and pull AI closer to production pipelines, analysts say.

After building an AI prototype in six hours, John Winsor turned it into a full platform in two weeks—showing how AI is collapsing the gap between vision and execution.