Ali Ghodsi

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Databricks CEO & Co-founder, UC Berkeley Faculty

Omnigent Unifies Code Agents with Secure Collaboration
SocialJun 13, 2026

Omnigent Unifies Code Agents with Secure Collaboration

Check out Omnigent, an open source harness that lets you use all the existing code harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, pi), collaborate and share sessions in many modalities (e.g. Slack/Teams, cli, webui), while having a fine grained security model...

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OpenSharing Enables Secure Cross‑Vendor Data & AI Exchange
SocialJun 10, 2026

OpenSharing Enables Secure Cross‑Vendor Data & AI Exchange

We are excited to launch 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, an open source project (part of Linux Foundation) to share datasets and AI assets (e.g. skills, models) across organizations securely. Two organizations can now share DATA + AI assets across vendors seamlessly. It works...

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Databricks' Knobless Liquid Clustering Eliminates Partitioning Pain
SocialJun 1, 2026

Databricks' Knobless Liquid Clustering Eliminates Partitioning Pain

Six years ago I did a survey of our field and found that most of the headaches customers were facing were because their data was using Partitioning (something invented by Hive long before this). So we set out to get...

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Genie Becomes Databricks’ Core AI for Semantic Analysis
SocialApr 28, 2026

Genie Becomes Databricks’ Core AI for Semantic Analysis

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞 is now the most important way to do data analysis in Databricks. What's unique about it is its ability to extract semantics from your entire Lakehouse, enabling it to answer complex data questions that cripple agents without a deep...

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Announcing OpenAI Partnership: GPT‑5.5 Demo with Experts
SocialApr 25, 2026

Announcing OpenAI Partnership: GPT‑5.5 Demo with Experts

Excited about the partnership with OpenAI , Check out GPT-5.5 and this chat between Denise Holland Dresser and Patrick Wendell !

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Launching Seamless Data Sharing Partnership with Adobe Experience Platform
SocialApr 23, 2026

Launching Seamless Data Sharing Partnership with Adobe Experience Platform

Really excited to launch this partnership enabling seamless 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP)!

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Genie Code Agents Auto-Discover and Reuse Existing Code
SocialApr 18, 2026

Genie Code Agents Auto-Discover and Reuse Existing Code

Yes, Genie Code agents are smart and they'll find existing code in notebooks, dashboards, and reuse it!

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Unity AI Gateway Unifies Data and Agent Governance
SocialApr 16, 2026

Unity AI Gateway Unifies Data and Agent Governance

If you ask our customers what Databricks' biggest value is chances are that you hear 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠. In the last three years, we provided governance for Agents, MCP Servers, Tools/Skills and Unstructured data as part of our AI Gateway. Today...

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Lakebase Postgres Powers Agents with Human‑Speed Data Access
SocialMar 30, 2026

Lakebase Postgres Powers Agents with Human‑Speed Data Access

@JeffDean says it best, the problem in this new agentic era is "tools designed for human speed interaction". That's why we think agents love 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀, it can branch, snapshot, scale up and down in a second, orders of magnitude...

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Databricks RTM Beats Flink, No Batching Needed
SocialMar 2, 2026

Databricks RTM Beats Flink, No Batching Needed

#1 thing people don't know about Databricks and Apache Spark: the performance of Real-Time Mode (RTM), it's faster than Apache Flink and more robust. No more batching.

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From $600K to $1.29B: A Decade of Growth
SocialMar 2, 2026

From $600K to $1.29B: A Decade of Growth

Exactly 10 years ago (Jan 2016), I stepped in as CEO. We had just closed out Q4 with a total of $600k in revenue (screenshot from board deck). Fast forward a decade. Q4 audited GAAP Revenue: $1,290M and over $5.4B...

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AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth
SocialFeb 9, 2026

AI Tools Remove Data Barriers, Driving Explosive Growth

I now constantly get questions about the SAAS meltdown, role of AI, system of records etc. I don't have an answer to all these. But I do know that we saw an acceleration in our business in Q2, Q3, and...

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Master Databricks Agent Skills with Gavita’s Tutorial
SocialJan 21, 2026

Master Databricks Agent Skills with Gavita’s Tutorial

Checkout this video of how to use Agent Skills in Databricks. 👩🏽🔬 Gavita does a great job in this video.

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Lakeflow’s External Orchestration Now Powers Multi‑Cloud Workflows
SocialDec 30, 2025

Lakeflow’s External Orchestration Now Powers Multi‑Cloud Workflows

Yes, since we added "External Orchestration" to Lakeflow more and more ppl use it to orchestrate all their estate, not just Databricks jobs/Spark etc, but also EC2 machines, other platforms (e.g. Snowflake), scripts, etc.

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