Databricks Bets $100 Million on OpenAI Integration

Databricks just made a wild $100 million bet on OpenAI, and they have to pay up even if it

completely flops. They are baking OpenAI's most advanced models, including the future

GPT-5, directly into their enterprise platform. This means big companies can now build custom

AI agents using their own secure, private data. Think of it as giving businesses a super-smart

assistant that already knows all their internal secrets, but safely. But here’s the kicker.

Databricks guaranteed OpenAI a minimum of $100 million from this deal. If customers don't

use the AI enough to hit that number, Databricks has to pay the difference out of pocket.

It’s a massive gamble that businesses will flock to these tools. This just shows