TileDB has rebranded as Tile.ai and appointed George Llado as chief executive officer. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company has also secured a strategic investment led by existing investor Two Bear Capital, with participation from Amgen Ventures. Tile.ai has introduced the Enterprise AI Data Substrate, now in private preview. The platform connects fragmented enterprise data to AI tools whilst maintaining existing controls and governance. Founder Stavros Papadopoulos, who served as chief executive for nine years, returns full time to product development as chief product officer. Llado brings over 30 years of leadership in life sciences and regulated enterprises, including chief information officer roles at Merck and Alexion Pharmaceuticals. He has served on TileDB's board since 2024. The company will continue maintaining the TileDB array engine as an open-source project.

TileDB launches Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform. TileDB announced controlled availability of TileDB Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform addressing the inability to discover, access, and analyze all data types, from structured tables to non-tabular data such as genomics, imaging, documents, models, agents, in a unified, governed environment. TileDB Carrara treats all data as "modalities" - reachable, shareable data or code assets with inherent structure and domain-specific semantics. Whether population variants, bioimaging, PDF documents, Jupyter notebooks, user-defined functions, or external tables from existing data warehouses, assets become discoverable, and queryable. * Organization: A unified catalog for registering and searching across all modalities, supporting rich metadata filters and LLM-powered discovery * Structuring: Leveraging TileDB's shape-shifting array technology to efficiently capture any complex data type, optimized for cloud storage backends * Collaboration: Teamspaces that function as secure data products, enabling users to create, share, and audit access to diverse assets within data clean rooms * Analyze: An infrastructure for massively distributed computations, workflows, notebooks, and dashboards that manages all the data. While Carrara's omnimodal architecture serves enterprises across sectors, its impact is particularly useful in life sciences and healthcare, where the integration of multimodal data (genomics, proteomics, clinical imaging, electronic health records, and sensor data) is essential.