Databricks and OpenAI announced a multi-year partnership aimed at integrating OpenAI models natively into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ flagship AI product, Agent Bricks. As a result, OpenAI models will become accessible to over 20,000 Databricks customers across multiple cloud environments. Valued at $100 million, this collaboration unites two leading technology innovators to bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to enterprises worldwide. With Agent Bricks, organizations can now build, evaluate, and scale production-grade AI applications and agents using OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, known for its exceptional performance in coding, math, writing, and reasoning. Under this partnership, GPT-5 will serve as a flagship model for all Databricks clients.
Businesses today require AI agents capable of analyzing and acting on enterprise data, automating complex workflows, and providing reliable insights while adhering to strict standards for accuracy, security, and governance. Traditionally, developing AI agents has involved moving data between systems, juggling multiple tools, and managing uncertain evaluation processes or cost-quality trade-offs. Now, Databricks customers can leverage GPT-5 and OpenAI’s advanced natural language processing, reasoning, and decision-making capabilities to create high-quality, governed AI agents directly within Agent Bricks. These models are immediately available where enterprise data resides, eliminating additional setup, data transfers, or processing limitations.
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Organizations already use the Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks to detect diseases earlier, improve energy efficiency, identify financial fraud, accelerate application development, and more.
“We’re seeing overwhelming demand from enterprise customers looking to build AI apps and agents on their data, tailored to their unique business needs,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “This partnership makes it easier for enterprises to securely leverage their data and OpenAI models at scale with best-in-class governance and performance.”
“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,” said Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI. “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.”
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“AI agents come down to three things: quality, scale, and trust,” said Greg Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard. “This partnership between Databricks and OpenAI enables us to build trusted AI agents that harness the latest OpenAI models delivered with the speed, security, and scale of the Databricks platform.”
Key highlights of the partnership include direct access to frontier models on enterprise data via SQL or API, high-capacity processing, production-ready AI agents with Agent Bricks, unified governance through Databricks Unity Catalog, and ongoing collaborative innovation between Databricks and OpenAI technical teams. This strategic alliance builds upon their previous work, including hosting gpt-oss and processing AI data to enhance the ChatGPT experience.
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