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Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $100 million partnership aimed at bringing frontier artificial intelligence capabilities to global enterprises. The collaboration will make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and its flagship AI product, Agent Bricks, giving over 20,000 Databricks customers direct access to state-of-the-art AI.
$100M Databricks–OpenAI partnership integrates OpenAI models into Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
GPT-5 to become a flagship model for 20,000+ Databricks customers.
Agent Bricks enables production-grade AI apps and agents on enterprise data.
Enterprises gain secure, governed access to high-capacity AI processing.
Partnership focuses on accuracy, security, governance, and scalability.
Industries include healthcare, finance, energy, and app development.
Enterprises increasingly demand AI agents capable of analyzing enterprise data, automating workflows, and delivering reliable insights without sacrificing accuracy or governance. Through this partnership, Databricks customers will have direct access to OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, to build high-quality, production-ready AI agents. Unlike traditional approaches requiring complex integrations or data transfers, the models will be available directly where enterprise data already resides, ensuring security and efficiency.
By leveraging Agent Bricks, organizations can apply AI to diverse use cases such as early disease detection, energy efficiency improvements, fraud detection, and application development. Customers benefit from production-ready AI agents that combine natural language processing, reasoning, and automation with Databricks’ governance and observability features.
"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.
Greg Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard, emphasized trust and scale: "For any use case, AI agents come down to three things: quality, scale, and trust. 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."
Frontier AI Models: OpenAI models, including GPT-5, available directly on enterprise data.
High Capacity Processing: Guaranteed performance for large-scale AI workloads.
Production-Ready Agents: Agent Bricks measures and tunes AI for domain-specific outputs.
Unified Governance: End-to-end compliance and observability with Databricks Unity Catalog.
Collaborative Innovation: Ongoing technical collaboration to refine models for enterprise use.
This partnership builds on OpenAI’s existing use of Databricks for AI data processing, reinforcing both firms’ commitment to enterprise-grade AI innovation.
The collaboration marks a significant step toward simplifying enterprise adoption of AI while ensuring scalability, governance, and trust.
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.
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