Databricks Will Bake Openai Models Into Its Products In $100m Bet To Spur Enterprise Adoption

Databricks said connected Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its information level arsenic good arsenic its AI product, Agent Bricks, arsenic portion of a $100 cardinal multi-year woody that bets connected nan AI company’s expertise to bring successful endeavor customers.

The woody highlights nan accelerating title to bring generative AI into nan endeavor stack, arsenic companies foresee request for AI devices that tin pat into firm information securely.

Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents connected apical of their endeavor information utilizing a scope of AI models. OpenAI’s latest models are now portion of that paper — accessible successful SQL aliases via API — and GPT-5 is being offered arsenic a flagship exemplary for Databricks customers.  

The news comes astir 2 months aft Databricks added OpenAI’s open-weight models, gpt-oss 20B and gpt-oss 120B, to nan platform. Agent Bricks tin now measurement really accurately nan different models execute connected circumstantial tasks and fine-tunes accordingly to nutrient much tailored results.

“Our business pinch Databricks brings our astir precocious models to wherever unafraid endeavor information already lives, making it easier for businesses to experiment, deploy, and standard AI agents pinch existent impact,” Brad Lightcap, main operating serviceman of OpenAI, said successful a statement.  

With this deal, Databricks is betting that endeavor customers will flock to OpenAI’s models. Under nan terms, nan institution is connected nan hook to pay a minimum of $100 cardinal to OpenAI whether aliases not nan AI firm’s models make that overmuch successful gross complete nan life of nan deal.

Neither institution disclosed really agelong nan statement will run. If gross ends up exceeding $100 million, OpenAI will gain more, but if it falls short, Databricks will person to salary nan afloat magnitude anyway. For Databricks, it intends imaginable downside risk; for OpenAI, it intends predictable income astatine a clip erstwhile nan institution is trying to quickly build retired much information centers.  

The woody is akin to nan 1 Databricks reached pinch Anthropic earlier this year, mounting a gross target of $100 cardinal complete 5 years.

A Databricks spokesperson told TechCrunch that nan patient has already seen overwhelming request from customers, including Mastercard, for autochthonal entree to OpenAI’s models connected nan platform.