Biography Flash: Larry Ellison's AI Master Plan and the Yacht Name That Spelled Disaster Backwards

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Welcome back to Biography Flash. Here's what's happening in Larry Ellison's world right now.

Oracle's co-founder is doubling down on what he calls the holy grail for corporate America in twenty twenty-six: private data inferencing. According to Cloud Wars, Ellison's grand AI plan centers on allowing companies to reason and perform inferencing on all their private data securely. He's positioning Oracle as the only player right now that can actually deliver this, not just describe it. Ellison argues this market for reasoning over private corporate data is even bigger than training AI models itself, and he's bringing together Oracle's existing databases, the new Oracle AI Database, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to capture it. Industry observers believe he's successfully distinguished Oracle as the leader in unlocking what he calls the AI economy.

In less glamorous news making rounds on social media, an old story about Ellison's yacht naming mishap has resurfaced and gone viral. According to multiple reports including Vulture, Ellison purchased a one hundred ninety-one foot superyacht and named it Izanami, referencing a Japanese Shinto goddess of creation and death. The problem: when spelled backwards, the name reads as an offensive three-word phrase. Ellison quickly renamed the vessel Ronin after the error was pointed out, and he's since sold it. The incident drew particular attention given Ellison's well-documented ties to Israel and his support for Israeli causes. He donated sixteen point six million dollars to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces back in twenty seventeen and maintains a close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Social media users compared the whole episode to scenes from the TV show Succession, with many joking about how such an obvious mistake could slip through with unlimited resources and no one willing to double-check details.

At eighty-one years old, Ellison remains Oracle's largest individual shareholder and continues to shape the company's strategic direction. His family has also been in the spotlight recently, with his son David becoming CEO and chairman of Paramount Skydance following last year's merger.

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