Databricks to hire hundreds, invest $250 mn in India to boost AI push

Databricks Inc. will boost hiring and invest more than $250 million in India over the next three years to accelerate artificial intelligence innovation, joining a flood of Western tech and AI companies expanding in the country.

The San Francisco-based firm, one of the world’s most valuable privately held tech companies, will increase its India headcount by more than 50 per cent to about 750 by the end of the fiscal year, it said in a statement on Thursday. That includes a doubling of the number of engineers at its new Bangalore research center to more than 200.