Superhuman AI: Decoding the Future

The Big Data Arms Race in AI — Inside ClickHouse with CEO Aaron Katz

Superhuman AI: Decoding the Future

Show Notes

Big data and AI are now in an arms race—and the databases behind them are becoming some of the most important infrastructure on the planet. In this episode of the Superhuman AI Podcast, we sit down with **Aaron Katz**, CEO and co-founder of **ClickHouse**, to unpack how a high-performance open-source database became core to AI-native companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla, LangChain, and more. From a billion events per second to millisecond queries, Aaron explains what it actually takes to power AI-scale analytics in the real world.

We dive into: - How ClickHouse became core infrastructure for OpenAI, Anthropic, Tesla and other AI leaders - Why big data and AI are now in an arms race - What “a billion events per second” really means in practice - Why databases matter more, not less, in an AI and AGI world - How ClickHouse thinks about open source, cloud, and its competitive moat - The shift from BI dashboards to AI agents querying live company data - Lessons from Salesforce, Elastic, and building ClickHouse into a data rocket ship If you care about the future of AI infrastructure, observability, or analytics at serious scale, this conversation with Aaron cuts through the noise. Subscribe for deep conversations on AI, agents, and the future of intelligence.

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