Databricks Inc. and OpenAI have created a multiyear, $100 million partnership, making OpenAI’s latest models, including GPT-5, natively available to the more than 20,000 Databricks customers worldwide. Under the agreement, OpenAI’s models will be tightly integrated with Databricks’ AI development environment, called Agent Bricks. That provides organizations with a single platform to develop, evaluate and scale up AI agents — systems that can perform tasks autonomously with little or no human supervision — without the complexity of moving data or managing separate tools. Databricks customers will be able to run LLMs on their existing enterprise data, accessible via SQL or API, and deploy them securely at scale with built-in governance and observability controls. By keeping data within existing governance frameworks, businesses can deploy AI models while adhering to compliance and performance standards. The partnership also promises high-capacity processing power dedicated to running OpenAI’s models across customer workloads. Agent Bricks will play a central role in the joint offering. It allows organizations to measure model accuracy with task-specific evaluation methods, fine-tune LLMs for domain-specific tasks and automate workflows across a variety of use cases. With GPT-5 integrated, the companies said businesses can expect faster development cycles and more reliable AI outputs. Another key component of the partnership is Databricks’ Unity Catalog, which is used for data and AI model governance. It can help data lineage, control access and enforce compliance while scaling AI deployments across departments and geographies, Databricks said. Observability features also help teams monitor performance, accuracy and security.