The Futurum Group's Steven Dickens interviews Ken Exner, VP of Product at Elastic, and discusses Elastic's role in the open-source community and its expansion into different industries through Elasticsearch, an open-source search and indexing technology. They also explore the relationship between open source and commercial interests, focusing on the increasing use of Elasticsearch in AI. Elastic's emphasis on leveraging generative AI in enterprise settings, such as security and search, is highlighted, along with their new offering that bridges the gap between public language models and proprietary enterprise data. Elastic is positioned as a foundational company enabling developers to create unique solutions on top of their platform in the AI Gold Rush.
