Databricks and OpenAI have launched a multi-year, $100 million partnership to bring OpenAI models natively into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and its flagship AI product, Agent Bricks. This collaboration makes OpenAI models, including GPT-5, available to more than 20,000 Databricks customers across cloud environments, enabling enterprises worldwide to build production-grade AI apps and agents directly on governed enterprise data.

Enterprise-Ready AI Agents

Businesses increasingly need AI agents capable of analyzing enterprise data, automating workflows, and delivering accurate insights while meeting strict governance and security standards. Through Agent Bricks, organizations can now leverage GPT-5 for natural language processing, reasoning, and complex decision-making. Because models are embedded directly in the platform, customers avoid duplicating data or juggling multiple tools, while benefiting from guaranteed high-capacity processing.

Enterprises are already using Databricks and Agent Bricks to accelerate breakthroughs in healthcare, improve energy efficiency, detect financial fraud, streamline software development, and more.

Executive Perspectives

“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 brings OpenAI’s 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.”

“At Mastercard, we are focused on delivering AI solutions that make commerce safer, smarter, and more personalized,” 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.”

Partnership Highlights

  • Frontier Models on Enterprise Data: OpenAI models are now available natively within Databricks, accessible via SQL or API for running large-scale AI workloads.
  • Dedicated High Capacity: Customers gain access to high-performance processing across OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5.
  • Production-Ready AI Agents: Agent Bricks enables evaluation, tuning, and deployment of AI agents with domain-specific accuracy using task-specific evaluation and LLM judges.
  • Unified Governance: Databricks Unity Catalog ensures end-to-end governance, observability, and compliance for responsible AI deployment.
  • Collaborative Innovation: Technical teams from both companies will work together to continuously optimize models for enterprise use cases.

This partnership builds on the companies’ prior collaboration, including Databricks’ role in supporting OpenAI’s data processing pipelines for ChatGPT and its early hosting of gpt-oss, OpenAI’s open-weight model.

Upcoming Event

Join the virtual event The Future of AI: Build Agents That Work on November 11 (AMER) and November 12 (APJ / EMEA), featuring Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. They will share insights on where AI is heading and how businesses can build agents that deliver meaningful results. Register here.

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