Databricks and OpenAI announced a multi-year, $100 million partnership aimed at making OpenAI’s advanced models natively accessible within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and its flagship AI product, Agent Bricks. This collaboration enables over 20,000 Databricks customers across cloud environments to leverage OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, directly within their enterprise workflows. The partnership combines the strengths of two leading technology innovators to deliver production-ready AI solutions for businesses worldwide.
With Agent Bricks, organizations can efficiently build, evaluate, and scale AI applications and agents using governed enterprise data. GPT-5, featuring cutting-edge capabilities across coding, mathematics, writing, and reasoning, will serve as the flagship model for all Databricks customers under this collaboration.
Enterprise-Ready AI Agents for Real Impact
Modern enterprises require AI agents capable of analyzing data, automating complex workflows, and delivering actionable insights while maintaining strict standards for accuracy, security, and governance. Traditional AI development often involves data duplication, multiple disconnected tools, and trade-offs in cost or quality. Now, Databricks customers can seamlessly integrate GPT-5 and other OpenAI models directly where their data resides, eliminating extra setup or movement while benefiting from high-capacity processing.
Organizations are already leveraging the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks to advance diverse initiatives from detecting diseases earlier and enhancing energy efficiency to preventing financial fraud and accelerating application development.
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“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.”
“At Mastercard, we are focused on delivering AI solutions that make commerce safer, smarter, and more personalized. Agentic solutions also make our internal operations stronger by automating processes and optimizing performance across our systems,” said Greg Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard. “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 on the strong foundations we’ve established with each firm and provides us the opportunity to build trusted AI agents that harness the latest OpenAI models delivered with the speed, security and scale of the Databricks platform.”
Partnership Highlights:
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Frontier Models on Enterprise Data: OpenAI models can now be run directly on enterprise data through SQL or API, enabling the creation of custom AI agents at scale.
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Dedicated High Capacity: Databricks ensures access to high-capacity processing for the latest OpenAI models.
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Production-ready AI Agents with Agent Bricks: Agent Bricks evaluates models like GPT-5 and gpt-oss using task-specific assessments and LLM judges, tuning them to deliver domain-specific, high-quality outputs.
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Unified Governance and Built-in Observability: Databricks Unity Catalog provides end-to-end governance, security, and ethical AI controls, helping teams deploy agents confidently.
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Collaborative Innovation: Databricks and OpenAI engineers will work together to optimize models for enterprise workloads, ensuring high performance and rapid iteration.
This partnership extends existing collaborations between the companies, including Databricks hosting OpenAI’s open weight model, gpt-oss, and supporting the processing of AI data that enhances product quality and the ChatGPT experience.