coming up, he is the man ben horowitz of andreessen horowitz calls the best ceo he has ever worked withill hear from the chief executive of an a.i. startup. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm taylor riggs in san francisco. a.i.-based startup databricks is raking in the investment. just eight months after securing $250 million in funding, it is adding another cool $400 million from backers such as microsoft and andreessen horowitz. along with that, a new valuation of more than $6 billion and that is more than double its price tag in february. to tell me more about this investment as well as how databricks uses a.i. to help companies organize their data, it is ceo ali ghodsi. thank you for joining me. walk me through your business model. ali: the way companies solve the world's toughest problems using data. we take massive amounts of data and do machine learning on it. we do that in the cloud. customers rent our service in the cloud from us and they pay us by the hour. taylor: congratulations on the funding. what are you using this for? ali: we

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$250 million in funding, it is adding another cool $400 million from backers such as microsoft and andreessenz's. along with that, a new valuation of more than $6 billion and that is more than double its price tag in february. to tell me more about this investment as well as how databricks uses ai to help companies organize their data, it is the ceo. thank you for joining me. walk me through your business model. guest: the way companies solve the world's toughest problems using data. we take massive amounts of data and do machine learning on it. we do that in the cloud. customers rent our service in the cloud from us and they pay us by the hour. taylor: congratulations on the funding. what are you using this for? guest: we will invest over $100 million on the european center. we have massive demand for our service over the last year or two. we will invest it back in rnd and looking at over the next three years investing in all these open-source projects. dedicated teams for each of these in europe. taylor: why is there more demand in europe right now? ali: the demand is worldwide everywhere.