OpenAI and Databricks unveiled a new, multi-year, $100M partnership on Thursday to expand the usage of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models.
The deal will see OpenAI’s models become natively available in Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and the Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) competitor’s flagship AI product, Agent Bricks. As such, OpenAI’s models will be instantly available to all of Databricks customers across clouds.
Among the capabilities that Databricks customers will have is the ability to bring OpenAI’s models directly to their enterprise data, either via SQL or an API, to run the large language models at scale. It also gives Databricks customers the ability to have access to the latest OpenAI models.
“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 in a statement. “This partnership makes it easier for enterprises to securely leverage their data and OpenAI models at scale with best-in-class governance and performance.”
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap echoed those thoughts. “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,” Lightcap explained. “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.”
Databricks announced last month that it had signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which values the company at $100B. OpenAI is financially backed by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), among other investors.