Databricks activates agent-building toolkit, deepens hyperscaler alliances

The company expanded its Microsoft Azure AI integrations and deployed Google’s Gemini models as it continued to forge agentic partnerships.

Databricks added agent-building capabilities and a no-code data pipeline tool to its enterprise AI portfolio Wednesday. The data and AI company also expanded cloud partnerships with Microsoft and Google Cloud last week during its annual Data + AI Summit in San Francisco.

Customers can use Agent Bricks, currently available in beta, to prepare emails, PDFs, manuals and other unstructured data for model ingestion, power a knowledge-assistant chatbot, orchestrate multi-agent applications and customize chatbots and content creation tools, according to the announcement. The no-code Lakeflow Designer studio will be available in private preview, the company said in a separate release.

“We’re expanding the capabilities of our core audience — the engineer — and we're also expanding the ability of everybody else to play in this game as well,” Bilal Aslam, senior ...