Databricks and Cal Athletics announced a multi-year partnership that names Cal’s football venue Databricks Field at California Memorial Stadium. The agreement also makes Databricks the official Enterprise Data + AI platform for Cal Athletics and includes other stadium and team branding rights.

Helix and Databricks announced a partnership to launch Helix Research Workspaces, a trusted research environment for population-scale clinicogenomic research. The environment gives approved research partners governed access to compute, storage, and analysis tools for more than 550,000 clinicogenomic records.

Databricks announced it had acquired Row Zero, a spreadsheet built for people and AI agents to work with data. Databricks said the acquisition would add a spreadsheet interface for exploring, modeling, and collaborating on governed data in its Genie AI coworker.

Intelo.ai announced it had been accepted into Databricks’ Built-on Partner Program. The designation follows a review of Intelo.ai’s product and architecture and recognizes its product’s use of the Databricks platform.

Concurrence announced a multi-year partnership with Databricks to bring its Health World Model and AI agents onto the Databricks Data + AI Platform. The companies said the combined offering helps healthcare organizations build longitudinal population records and develop AI applications using their own data.

On September 16, Databricks announced AI initiatives with Singapore’s EDB and IMDA, including a goal to train 20,000 people in data and AI over three years. It also announced a Singapore Startup AI Accelerator, planned to launch in November and scale to support more than 100 startups over three years, working with local universities including NTU, NUS, and SMU.

Databricks made OpenAI GPT-6 Astra available through Unity Gateway on September 4, 2026. The model is positioned for enterprise reasoning, document processing, coding, agentic search, multimodal inputs, and long-context workloads.

Databricks announced The Big Book of AgentOps on September 2, 2026. The guide provides practical guidance on architecture, evaluation, observability, governance, cost management, and deploying reliable AI agents at enterprise scale.

Databricks added Google Gemini 3.8 Flash as a Databricks-hosted model on September 2, 2026. Customers can access it through Databricks Foundation Model APIs.

Databricks added Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 as a Databricks-hosted model on September 1, 2026. The model is available through Unity Gateway and Databricks Foundation Model APIs.

Databricks launched Genie One web search in beta on September 1, 2026. The feature allows Genie One to search the public web for current information and cite the external sources it uses.

Databricks made Lakebase available in four additional Azure regions: North Central US, France Central, Germany West Central, and East Asia. The expansion broadens the geographic availability of Databricks’ serverless Postgres offering on Azure.

Databricks closed a $5 billion strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation. The round was led by Coatue alongside Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, and Sixth Street Growth, and the company said it had surpassed a $7 billion revenue run-rate while growing more than 80% year over year.

Databricks announced that Electric is joining the company to bring WASM Postgres to AI-agent sandboxes. A contemporaneous public announcement characterized the transaction as Databricks acquiring Electric; financial terms were not reported.

Databricks announced that Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on its platform through Unity AI Gateway. The open-weight model is hosted initially in the United States and is offered with unified API access, governance, cost controls, guardrails, and observability.

Databricks released OfficeQA Pro V2, a benchmark for evaluating enterprise grounded reasoning over unfamiliar, enterprise-style data. The benchmark is based on roughly 1,400 U.S. Treasury PDFs spanning approximately 120,000 pages and was made publicly available for AI practitioners.

Databricks and Microsoft announced an expansion of their decade-long strategic partnership on July 23, 2026, extending into the 2030s. The companies will deepen Azure Databricks integration, expand use of Databricks Genie and Unity AI Gateway across Microsoft products, and bring business-contextual AI capabilities into enterprise workflows.

Databricks announced support for Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 through Model Provider Services in Unity AI Gateway. The integration provides governed access, permissions, usage controls, and observability for the newly released model through Databricks.