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Databricks Just Hit a $188 Billion Valuation. It Is Now Worth More Than Most African Economies.

In December 2024, Databricks was worth $62 billion. In February 2026 it was $134 billion. This month it hit $188 billion. The company has nearly tripled in value in seven months, without going public, without shipping a frontier AI model, and without most people outside the tech industry knowing what it actually does. Here is what Databricks is, why investors keep writing billion-dollar cheques for it, and what the $188 billion number tells us about where the real money in AI is actually flowing.