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.