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Databricks Co-Founder Wins Top Computing Prize — and Says AGI Is 'Already Here'
Matei Zaharia, co-founder of Databricks and creator of Apache Spark, has won the ACM Prize in Computing — one of the most prestigious awards in computer science. In interviews accompanying the announcement, Zaharia made a pointed argument: AGI is not a future event but a present condition, and the industry's endless debate about its arrival is obscuring more useful questions about what to do with the AI we already have.