Databricks Launches Agentic Coworker Fueled by All Business Data

Databricks has launched an agentic coworker called Genie One designed to help business teams automate and orchestrate their work across data from inside or outside Databricks.

Genie One is the successor to the first generation of Genie, which only used data stored on Databricks. With the additional data it can access, Genie One can be used by marketing, finance, sales and other business teams, Databricks said in a Tuesday (June 16) press release.

Like the other artificial intelligence coworkers offered by Databricks, Genie One is powered by Genie Ontology, a context layer that automatically extracts business knowledge from Databricks, AI tools and connected workplace apps, according to the release.

“Genie Ontology continuously learns context from data everywhere, so our answers are much faster and our agents are more accurate,” Databricks Co-Founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said in the release. “That’s the difference between an AI chatbot and an agentic coworker who knows your business inside out — every metric, every data source, every answer.”

Databricks also introduced Genie Agents, which allow teams to save any Genie conversation as a reusable agent; Genie App Builder, which provides a fully managed vibe coding environment; Genie Code, which helps teams plan, build and run data engineering, machine learning and analytics workflows; and Genie ZeroOps, which monitors, investigates and proposes fixes for data and AI assets.

Genie One, Genie Agents and Genie Code are generally available, while Genie App Builder and Genie ZeroOps will soon enter private preview, per the release.

Databricks said in February that it secured $7 billion in new investments and would use the new capital to bolster Lakebase, which is the company’s serverless Postgres database for AI agents, and Genie.

“With this new capital, we’ll double down on Lakebase so developers can create operational databases built for AI agents,” Ghodsi said at the time in a press release. “At the same time, we’re investing in Genie to let every employee chat with their data, driving accurate and actionable insights.”

It was reported June 8 that Databricks has discussed a funding round that could begin within the next month and value the company at between $165 billion and $175 billion. It was most recently valued at $134 billion.