Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said at the Data + AI Summit that the proliferation of AI agents from vendors like Microsoft, Snowflake, and AWS is creating a 'quagmire' of lock-in and compatibility issues.…
An AI agent harness is the software infrastructure that wraps around a large language model to enable it to act on tasks, not just respond to prompts. The harness connects the model to tools, memory, …
Databricks and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to integrate NVIDIA GPUs, the new Vera CPU, and agentic AI tooling into the Databricks platform, aiming to accelerate enterprise AI workloads fr…
Microsoft, in collaboration with Cisco, Databricks, GitHub, GoDaddy, Google, Hugging Face, Nvidia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake, introduced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification,…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and st…
Databricks launched the Partner Well-Architected Framework (PWAF) in February, providing AI-ready guidance for partners building on the Databricks platform. The framework covers three core partner arc…
Databricks announced five new additions to its Free Edition, including Genie Code, serverless GPUs, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Lakeflow Designer, giving users a complete toolkit for building end-to-e…
Databricks announced new partner program features at DAIS, including the ability for customers to use pre-committed spend on Marketplace purchases, and support for listing Databricks Apps and Genie Ag…
Databricks announced new dashboard theming capabilities in AI/BI, allowing users to apply consistent brand identities across dashboards via workspace themes. The feature enables custom fonts, colors, …
Databricks announced expansions to Genie Code at Data + AI Summit 2026, introducing a full-page command center, upgrades for production data and ML engineering, and scheduled tasks. The updates aim to…
Databricks announced new security and compliance capabilities at Data + AI Summit 2026, including General Availability of Automatic Identity Management (AIM) for Microsoft Entra ID on AWS and GCP, Pub…
Industry reports and technical commentaries outline patterns for integrating agentic AI with legacy enterprise systems, including intelligent overlays, embedded assistants, and connector layers. A joi…
Databricks announced Genie Ontology, a context layer that automatically extracts business context from enterprise data and organizes it into a living graph for AI agents. The tool, currently in previe…
Databricks announced the Unity AI Gateway partner ecosystem at Data + AI Summit 2026, integrating with over a dozen security, identity, and observability vendors to govern AI interactions across model…
Google Cloud Next 2026 shifted focus from model size to agentic control planes, with Google repositioning Gemini as a connective layer and launching the Agentic Data Cloud. Gartner predicts 40% of ent…
Databricks announced new AI platform capabilities at Data + AI Summit 2026, including Genie Code for the full ML lifecycle, AI Runtime for large-scale deep learning training, and Feature and Model Ser…
Databricks announced major updates to Unity Catalog at the Data+AI Summit 2026, including AI runtime governance with hard spend caps and contextual service policies, external engine writes to managed …
Databricks reported $6.9 billion in annualized recurring revenue, up 80% year over year, widening its lead over Snowflake to $1.6 billion. AI products now account for $1.7 billion of Databricks' ARR, …
Databricks unveiled a set of platform releases at its San Francisco event, including a new Lakehouse architecture called LTAP and a low-latency compute engine named Reyden, targeting building, running…
Databricks acquired cybersecurity startup Panther Labs, which had a $1.4 billion valuation after a 2021 funding round, to bolster its security offerings. The acquisition aims to enhance Databricks' co…