Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI Databricks Inc. co-founder and Apache Spark creator Andy Konwinski this week announced the creation of a new artificial intelligence research institute called Laude that’s backed with $100 million of his own cash. The computer scientist said in a June 23 blog post that Laude Institute intends to support AI research that has the most potential for broad, positive impacts on human...