Databricks CEO Clashes With Snowflake Over AI Strategy and Growth

29 Oct 2026, 11:17 am · 3h ago · 1 min read · Analytics India MagazineNew

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy engaged in a public dispute on social media platform X over AI capabilities and financial metrics. The exchange began after Ramaswamy challenged Databricks to disclose deeper financial metrics, questioning how much of its reported 80% year-on-year revenue growth stemmed from pass-through inference revenue and AI-native clients. Ghodsi responded by taking a swipe at Snowflake's AI offerings, suggesting Snowflake purchase AI tokens through Databricks to access frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI via its Unity Gateway platform.