Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year partnership to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks. This collaboration aims to deliver frontier AI to enterprises around the world.
With the $100 million partnership, organizations can build, evaluate, and scale production-grade AI apps and agents on their governed enterprise data using OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5. GPT-5 will be a flagship model for all Databricks customers.
This partnership provides several benefits to Databricks customers, including:
* Frontier Models on Enterprise Data: Access to OpenAI models directly on enterprise data, accessible in SQL or via API.
* Dedicated High Capacity: Benefit from high-capacity processing across the latest OpenAI models.
* Production-ready AI Agents with Agent Bricks: Build production-ready AI agents by measuring accuracy and optimizing models for domain-specific outputs.
* Unified Governance and Built-in Observability: Ensure compliance with security, access, and ethical standards using Databricks Unity Catalog.
The partnership builds upon the companies’ existing work together, where OpenAI leverages Databricks for processing AI data to generate insights. This collaboration aims to simplify AI deployment without compromising performance or governance.
Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices around the globe. The company was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.
Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/databricks-and-openai-launch-groundbreaking-partnership-to-bring-frontier-intelligence-to-enterprises-with-databricks-agent-bricks-302566719.html