Databricks partners with OpenAI to deliver frontier AI for enterprises

NEW DELHI, Sep 28 : Databricks and OpenAI announced a multi-year partnership to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ flagship AI product, Agent Bricks, an official statement said.

This collaboration unites two of the world’s most impactful technology companies, with a USD 100 million partnership, to deliver frontier AI for enterprises around the world.

‘Frontier AI’ refers to advanced general-purpose AI models with capabilities that match or exceed current leading models, enabling them to process complex data like text, images, and audio.

“We’re seeing overwhelming demand from enterprise customers looking to build AI apps and Agents on their data, tailored to their unique business needs. This partnership makes it easier for enterprises to securely leverage their data and OpenAI models at scale with best-in-class governance and performance,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks.

Databricks customers can now bring OpenAI models directly to their enterprise data- accessible in SQL or via API- to run LLMs at scale.

“Enterprise demand for frontier AI is accelerating, and with Databricks, we’re making its deployment even simpler without compromising the high bar for performance and production. Our partnership with Databricks brings our most advanced models to where secure enterprise data already lives, making it easier for businesses to experiment, deploy, and scale AI Agents with real impact,” said Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI.

Following this partnership, Databricks and OpenAI technical teams will work closely together to continually improve and optimize OpenAI models for enterprise use cases, ensuring high performance and rapid iteration for AI workloads.

The partnership also sets the stage for unified governance and built-in observability, as Databricks Unity Catalog offers end-to-end governance and responsible AI controls, helping ensure compliance with security, access, and ethical standards.

Moreover, Databricks customers now benefit from GPT-5 and OpenAI’s advanced natural language processing, reasoning, and complex decision-making to build high-quality, governed AI agents using Databricks Agent Bricks.

Databricks is a US-based software company that offers a cloud platform for data analytics and artificial intelligence, including generative AI and machine learning models.

(UNI)