Google Maps Gets SMARTER 🗺️🤖 + Databricks' AI Crushes LLaMA 2, Grok & Mixtral! 🚀

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📍Google Maps just leveled up with AI — and you won’t believe what it can do now!
Meanwhile, Databricks has released a new AI model that's outperforming LLaMA 2, Grok, and Mixtral in key benchmarks. 😱🔥

🧠 AI is no longer just about chatbots — it’s transforming navigation, logistics, and data science all at once.
⚡ Find out how these tools are setting a new standard for real-world AI performance.
🌐 Plus: How Databricks is sneaking into the AI elite club with this new model.

🎯 Whether you’re a techie, creator, or just AI-curious — this episode is packed with must-know breakthroughs.

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Transcript

00:00Google Maps is rolling out some awesome updates this summer,

00:05with a special focus on artificial intelligence

00:08to make your travel planning smarter and more personalized.

00:11The AI in Google Maps now helps you quickly understand

00:14what makes a place special by analyzing photos and reviews

00:17from the Maps community.

00:19For example, if you're looking at a restaurant,

00:21AI can identify the dishes being shown

00:23and provide you with key information like the name of the dish,

00:26its price, popularity, and even if it's vegetarian or vegan.

00:30This is super helpful when you're in a new city trying out local cuisines.

00:34Besides this, Google Maps is introducing features to help you find

00:37and organize recommendations more easily.

00:39In select cities in the US and Canada,

00:41you can access curated lists of places to visit,

00:44like the hottest new restaurants or hidden gems sourced from trusted sites

00:48and the Google Maps community.

00:50You can save these lists for later or share them with friends.

00:53To tailor your travel experience even further,

00:55Google Maps allows you to create your own lists of places you want to visit

00:59or have already visited.

01:01The new updates give you tools to customize these lists

01:04by changing the order of places or linking to your social media reviews,

01:08making your recommendations more personal and useful.

01:11The combination of AI-powered insights

01:13with the enhanced features for discovering expert curated lists

01:16and personalizing your own

01:18ensures that Google Maps is more useful than ever.

01:21And with a fresh new design,

01:22including a cleaner home screen and new pin colors,

01:25navigating maps and planning your summer adventures is now easier

01:28and more enjoyable than ever.

01:30All right. Now, Databricks, a big company that works with data, obviously,

01:34just bought another company called Lilac,

01:36which is located in Boston and does research to help people understand and work with data better.

01:41They didn't tell us how much they paid for it,

01:43but Lilac is going to join Databricks and bring their technology and team to Databricks platform,

01:51which was once known as a data lake house.

01:54This means that people using Databricks can now have an easier time making their data better for creating apps that use big language models.

02:02Why is this interesting? Because Databricks is really pushing to be the go-to place for everything related to generative AI.

02:09They also recently put money into another AI company, Mistral, which is doing pretty good in the generative AI field.

02:15And Lilac is going to help make dealing with data a lot easier.

02:18Now, Databricks has created a new AI tool called DBRX,

02:22and it's making waves because it's doing better than other similar tools like Lama2, Grok, and Mistral.

02:28Wired Magazine reports that this new tool from Databricks isn't just outperforming others from big names like XAI and Mistral,

02:35but it's also really close to matching OpenAI's GPT-4 in understanding language, solving math problems, and coding.

02:43Databricks also made sure to check how safe their new AI is by having people evaluate it.

02:49This is important because there's a growing worry about the risks of sharing powerful AI tools with everyone.

02:54Now, Databricks bought another AI company, Mosaic AI, before and shifted towards focusing more on AI.

03:01They want to use the data they have to help people make AI applications safely.

03:05They have also shared some AI models for people to use for different business needs.

03:09However, having good data is super important for these AI efforts.

03:13Teams need to make sure their data is top-notch for training and testing their AI models.

03:18This includes making sure the models aren't biased or making mistakes.

03:21This is where LILAC comes in.

03:23It helps teams work with unstructured data, which is data that's not neatly organized, and make it better and ready for AI use.

03:30LILAC was started by two people who used to work at Google, Daniel Smilkoff and Nikhil Thorat, in 2023.

03:37They made a tool that's easy to use and powered by AI to help understand and change unstructured text data.

03:43With LILAC, data scientists and AI researchers can organize their data, search through it, find and remove personal info or duplicates, and get it ready for AI models.

03:53The people at Databricks wrote in a blog post that LILAC's tech will be added to their Mosaic AI tools.

03:59This means developers will have an easier time making their data ready for custom AI systems.

04:04They haven't shared all the details on how this will work, but the goal is the same – to make it simpler for teams to check and prepare their data for AI use.

04:13LILAC said that joining Databricks means businesses will have more control and insight into their unstructured data.

04:18This will help create better AI products for users.

04:21They think this move will let more developers use generative AI easily.

04:26By buying LILAC, Databricks is moving closer to offering everything needed to create great AI apps with their own data.

04:32This includes using AI models from other companies and tools to play with these models, use them in apps, or tweak them with their own data for specific needs.

04:41Snowflake, another big name in data, is also trying to do something similar by offering services to help customers build apps with powerful AI models.