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AI datasets, agent architecture, and production AI — from the team building AIDC.


  1. Dave Drach

    AIDC Datasets on Databricks Now with Instant Access

    AIDC datasets are live on Databricks Marketplace with Delta Sharing and instant notebook evaluation. Within days of launch, listings hit the top 10 across 8 categories.

    • Databricks
    • AI Datasets
  2. Dave Drach

    Data Engineering is becoming Cognitive Engineering

    ActiveRAG reframes how LLMs learn — not by absorbing more text, but by constructing understanding from structured inputs. Here's what that means for real deployments.

    • Data Engineering
    • AI Infrastructure
    • foundation models
  3. Dave Drach

    Licensing beats litigation

    A federal judge rejected the $1.5B Anthropic-authors settlement. Courts move slow, business moves fast. Here's the practical math on data licensing for enterprise AI.

    • AI Strategy
    • Dataset Economics
    • licensing
  4. Dave Drach

    Custom built AI Dataset Licensing

    AI training licenses require specialized frameworks distinct from traditional commercial data licenses. AIDC has collaborated with ML Commons, ODI, and Duke University to develop responsible AI contracting standards.

    • AI Strategy
    • Dataset Economics
    • licensing
  5. Dave Drach

    AIDC — Monetize your datasets

    Data engineers and data scientists can now monetize their work engagement to engagement through AIDC — full compliance, instant contracts, immediate payment.

    • Dataset Economics
    • Data Engineering
  6. Dave Drach

    Gen AI Copyright Act

    The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 requires AI training datasets to disclose copyrighted works — exactly what AIDC has been building toward.

    • AI Strategy
    • licensing
  7. Dave Drach

    Good Data Matters

    Google DeepMind's GraphCast used 39 years of ECMWF weather data to beat current forecasting methods. The lesson: discipline in data curation compounds over decades.

    • Data Engineering
    • AI Infrastructure
    • foundation models
  8. Dave Drach

    The AIDC Story

    Well-managed, curated data with provenance and history is rare and valuable. AIDC exists to make it easier to bring this data together and solve problems in a more friction-free manner.

    • AI Strategy
    • Dataset Economics