Databricks to Hire Hundreds in India to Accelerate AI Boom

Databricks Inc.will boost hiring and invest more than $250 million in India over the next three years to accelerate artificial intelligence innovation, joining a flood of Western tech and AI companies expanding in the country.

The San Francisco-based firm, one of the world’s most valuable privately held tech companies, will increase its India headcount by more than 50% to about 750 by the end of the fiscal year, it said in a statement on Thursday. That includes a doubling of the number of engineers at its new Bangalore research center to more than 200.

The India push expands Databricks’ ...