Generative AI needs tools to avoid copyright infringement, Databricks’ Naveen Rao says — or more companies could meet Napster’s fate

• Naveen Rao is VP of Generative AI at Databricks and co-founder of LLM-training platform MosaicML. 
• Rao says copyright infringement could prevent companies from successfully monetizing AI.
• Databricks and MosaicML are building open-source LLMs to help companies achieve this.  

Generative AI has a monetization problem, says Naveen Rao.

Rao, who oversees generative AI strategy for Databricks after it bought his startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion, likens it to the issue that crushed Napster, the 2000s-era music-sharing platform.