Databricks inks $100M deal with OpenAI for enterprise AI

Databricks and OpenAI have partnered in a $100 million deal to promote AI agent adoption across ￰0￱ deal allows enterprise clients to build AI agents and applications on their corporate data ￰1￱ will invest $100 million over several years in OpenAI’s models, including the latest ￰2￱ integration will allow more than 20,000 Databricks customers globally to access the models, enabling them to build AI agents and applications ￰3￱ clients get a boost from GPT models Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder of Databricks, revealed that they are witnessing increased demand from enterprise customers who seek to build AI apps and ￰4￱ to Ghodsi, the collaboration makes it easier for corporations to securely use propriety data with OpenAI models at scale and with better governance and ￰5￱ news: Databricks and @OpenAI are partnering to deliver powerful AI to the ￰6￱ frontier models will now be available natively in ￰7￱ means you can build, evaluate and scale production-grade AI apps and agents on your governed enterprise data,… ￰8￱ — Databricks (@databricks) September 25, 2025 OpenAI’s COO Brad Lightcap described data as the lifeblood of AI systems while sharing his hope that, from experimentation to deployment, the partnership will be able to accelerate enterprises with AI adoption as the firm looks to build more powerful ￰9￱ confirmed the deal will generate more revenue than the committed $100 ￰10￱ Databricks Agents tool will now be natively integrated with OpenAI’s models, allowing customers to develop AI agents capable of reasoning, automating workflows, and generating insights without moving sensitive data from their governed data ￰11￱ Data analytics firm also confirmed that its Unity catalogue will provide governance and compliance standards, while research teams from both firms continue to improve the models for enterprise use ￰12￱ Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard, revealed that they are focused on delivering AI solutions that make commerce safer, smarter, and more ￰13￱ highlighted that Agentic solutions strengthen their internal operations by automating processes and optimizing system ￰14￱ to Ulrich, the collaboration would enable Mastercard to build on the strong foundations it has established with OpenAI and Databricks, providing an opportunity to build trusted AI ￰15￱ competition escalates amid enterprise adoption The deal comes amid a wave of companies seeking to apply LLMs to specific healthcare, finance, and manufacturing applications.

However, the integration of LLMs has been slow due to reliability and complexity ￰16￱ efforts are focusing on achieving agent accuracy rates above 95%, which are comparable to those of human ￰17￱ Global Data values OpenAI at $500 billion after a $300 billion cloud deal with Oracle and data center projects with ￰18￱ company also announced a $100 billion investment from Nvidia this ￰19￱ the other hand, the valuation of Databricks stands at $100 ￰20￱ data analytics firm reported that its annual revenue surpassed $4 billion, with $1 billion raised from AI investments and an overall growth of 50% ￰21￱ revealed that the five-year $300 billion cloud computing deal will begin in ￰22￱ plan includes 4.5 gigawatts of power to support new AI ￰23￱ stock surged to over 42% following the ￰24￱ AI landscape has shown heightened competition recently, following multiple companies and startups forging collaborations with market ￰25￱ recently collaborated with Microsoft to bring OpenAI’s models into its ￰26￱ has also announced plans to allow customers to run models from , Google, and xAI directly on its database software starting this ￰27￱ from OpenAI and Databricks are scheduled to host a joint event in November to discuss the future of AI agents and how enterprises can deploy them at ￰28￱ you're reading this, you’re already ￰29￱ there with our newsletter .