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Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison

Photo: Oracle PR Hartmann Studios, CC BY 2.0

Born1944-08-17

Occupationactor, aircraft pilot, businessperson, computer scientist

EmployerAmdahl Corporation, Ampex

Positionboard member, chairperson, chief executive officer

EducationSouth Shore High School, University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Highlights

For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source
AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source
The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source
There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.
inkl.com2025-08-19Source
Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.
crn.comSource
There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,
crn.comSource
People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,
crn.comSource
The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.
crn.comSource
They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,
crn.comSource
Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.
crn.comSource
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For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source
AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source
The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.
techstrong.ai2025-10-14Source
There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.
inkl.com2025-08-19Source
Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.
crn.comSource
There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,
crn.comSource
People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,
crn.comSource
The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.
crn.comSource
They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,
crn.comSource
Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.
crn.comSource
Thank God we have these coding tools now that allow us to build a comprehensive set of software — agent-based software — to automate an ecosystem like health care or financial services,
qz.com2026-03-11Source
That’s what we’re doing at Oracle,
qz.com2026-03-11Source
That’s why we think we’re a disruptor.
qz.com2026-03-11Source
That is why we think we are a disruptor. That is why we think the SaaS-apocalypse applies to others, but not to us.
qz.com2026-03-11Source
even larger and more valuable
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source
the largest and fastest-growing business in human history,
timesofindia.indiatimes.com2026-01-09Source
That’s the big step — that’s the missing link — we need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it’s easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like,
cloudwars.com2025-02-24Source
way ahead of the other hyperscalers in terms of our network and our ability to do AI.
crn.comSource

Works Timeline

2003

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