Ameet Talwalkar on Building the AI Research Lab

May 26, 2026

"We're doing cutting-edge AI, focused on real translational impact: getting our research over the wall and into production."

Ameet Talwalkar, Datadog's Chief Scientist, shares what it took to build the AI Research Lab from the ground up — and what makes DAIR different from traditional research teams.

At Datadog, research ships. Recent work from the lab includes Toto 2.0, open-weights time series forecasting models ranked #1 on leading benchmarks, and ARFBench, a new benchmark for evaluating AI on real incident data.

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