{"id":17632,"date":"2026-04-10T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=4b1d596023df622a6ce1db15c0fb53f8"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:09:33","slug":"databricks-co-founder-matei-zaharia-wins-acm-prize-and-declares-agi-is-already-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17632","title":{"rendered":"Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/databricks-matei-zaharia-acm-prize-agi.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>In short:\u00a0Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to distributed data systems and AI infrastructure. The $250,000 prize, funded by an Infosys endowment, is one of computer science\u2019s most prestigious mid-career honours. Zaharia is donating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/databricks-matei-zaharia-acm-prize-agi?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/databricks-matei-zaharia-acm-prize-agi\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short:\u00a0Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to distributed data systems and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}