Databricks and OpenAI have announced a landmark multi-year partnership valued at $100 million, aimed at embedding OpenAI’s latest models — including GPT-5 — directly into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and its flagship product, Agent Bricks. “Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, $100 million partnership to bring OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, directly into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and its flagship product, Agent Bricks.” The collaboration will give more than 20,000 Databricks customers seamless access to advanced AI capabilities across cloud environments, enabling enterprises to build production-grade AI applications and agents on governed datasets without the challenges of data duplication or complex integrations.
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, underscored the growing enterprise need for secure, tailored AI solutions. “This partnership makes it easier for enterprises to securely leverage their data and OpenAI models at scale with best-in-class governance and performance.” By tightly integrating OpenAI’s models within its ecosystem, Databricks is positioning itself as a central hub for enterprise AI adoption.
From OpenAI’s perspective, the collaboration reflects a strategic step toward bringing cutting-edge models closer to where enterprise data already resides. “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,” said Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI.
The announcement has already generated momentum among leading enterprises. Mastercard, for instance, is actively leveraging the partnership to accelerate its AI adoption. Greg Ulrich, chief AI and data officer at Mastercard, explained: “The partnership gives us an opportunity to create reliable AI agents powered by the most advanced OpenAI models, ensuring secure and scalable AI adoption.”
Beyond commercial availability, the agreement also formalizes a deeper technical collaboration. Databricks and OpenAI teams will jointly develop optimizations tailored for enterprise workloads. Central to this will be Databricks’ Unity Catalog, which provides observability, compliance, and governance for AI systems. This new initiative builds on an existing partnership: OpenAI already uses Databricks for AI training data, while Databricks hosts gpt-oss, OpenAI’s open-weight model.
By combining OpenAI’s state-of-the-art AI with Databricks’ data intelligence capabilities, the partnership signals a new phase in enterprise AI — one focused on secure, scalable, and practical deployment of AI agents at scale.
