OpenAI and Databricks detail enterprise AI integrations
OpenAI and Databricks have formed a multi-year partnership, beginning in September 2025, to connect OpenAI models and tools with governed business data in Databricks. Available integrations include the Databricks Genie plugin for ChatGPT, Codex routing through Unity Gateway, and OpenAI Agents SDK agents deployed with Agent Bricks or Databricks Apps. Databricks also says Databricks serves recent OpenAI GPT models, including the GPT-6 family, and the open-weight gpt-oss models.
The partnership provides concrete deployment paths for applying ChatGPT, Codex, and custom agents to governed enterprise data while retaining access controls, request logging, and cost controls.
Greg Brockman, co-founder and President of OpenAI, has a simple way to describe AI without company data: “it's like hiring someone with 20 PhDs and never inviting them to a meeting.”
Enterprises want to use frontier OpenAI models on the business data they already govern in Databricks, and they want to roll AI out to far more of their employees. OpenAI and Databricks formed their partnership to make that possible. OpenAI builds the frontier models, Codex, and ChatGPT that people use every day. Databricks provides the context those tools need to work inside a company: governed data, business definitions, and access rules. Genie Ontology is the context layer in Databricks that holds those definitions and shows how the company's data fits together, so ChatGPT using Genie knows what “revenue” or “active customer” means at your company before it starts working.
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, and Greg Brockman, discussed the shift from chatbots to autonomous agents, and what enterprises need to get real value from them, in a conversation released earlier this week. You can watch it below.
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