What is Databricks?

Databricks is a data and AI company that operates massive-scale infrastructure and agentic systems.

• Dec 2025 - Arvind Jain said initial attempts to automate software engineering at Databricks failed due to human organizational issues, not AI shortcomings.
• May 2026 - Jason Lemkin stated that at Databricks’ Neon (its Supabase competitor), over 90% of databases are built by agents, not humans.
• Jun 2026 - Reynold Xin said Databricks runs 50 to 60 million virtual machines a day across three clouds and processes exabytes of data before breakfast.
• Jun 2026 - Reynold Xin reported 13 million databases a day are created via an agentic factory built from a decade of traces.
• Jun 2026 - Matei Zaharia said Databricks has pipelines using open-source models that generate training environments and self-train to beat Opus and GPT 5.5 at tasks.
• Jun 2026 - Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll stated Databricks claims it can perform an enterprise-grade LLM migration in 30 days or less.
• Jul 2026 - Jason Calacanis said Databricks is among the major AI distribution players alongside SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.