Looks like someone is thinking “hey let’s wave our hands in the air and talk about AI and someone will write us a cheque!” as a way to kick the can down the road that this far into it they’re still not selling a product that’s making money. Looks a bit desperate TBH.
lot of usage has moved to snowflake. I know snowflake cannot do everything spark does but a huge number of workloads on spark can be moved to snowflake ( which has superior ux)